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On Aug. 21, a portion of the United States will be plunged into darkness as the moon blocks out the sun — the first total solar eclipse in 99 years. But astronomers (both professional and amateur) aren’t the only groups excited for this once-in-a-lifetime event. Another, more controversial …
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Thinkstock by Getty Images The Denver Post recently featured an article about Coloradans who believe that the Earth is flat. As if that wasn’t surprising enough, some members of this community also believe that they are the recipients of flat-Earth prejudice, which I will now term “terrashapism.” I …
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Every Tuesday at 6 p.m., three dozen Coloradans from every corner of the state assemble in the windowless back room of a small Fort Collins coffee shop. They have met 16 times since March, most nights talking through the ins and outs of their shared faith until the owners kick them out at closing. …
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Some people just want to be heard. Others are mad that people who just want to be heard get heard, especially when it pertains to something they consider a nonsensical conspiracy theory. That’s my takeaway from the reaction to a story I wrote Monday about the Infinite Plane Society paying for a …
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Do you believe in gravity, and the science behind planetary formation? Do you turn up your nose at the thought of a giant ice wall at the edge of the world that extends into dark void? Do you believe that the NCAA didn’t purposefully sabotage Villanova’s championship run in order to preserve the …
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Finally, some reason and sense on the “flat Earth” thing. After Kyrie Irving came out at the All-Star weekend and said he believed the Earth was flat (which some still believe had to be part of a marketing campaign), Shaquille O’Neal followed up by saying he, too, believed that everything science …
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Cavs guard Kyrie Irving caught some flak last month when he appeared on a podcast and espoused his belief—nay, his conviction—that the earth is flat.”This is not even a conspiracy theory,” Irving said. “The earth is flat.”It is?”It’s right in front of our faces,” Irving added. “I’m telling you, …
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ESPN.com news servicesFeb 18, 2017, 10:37 AM ETAfter broadcasting to the universe that he thinks the Earth is flat, Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star guard Kyrie Irving on Saturday explained why he did so.”The fact that that could be news all over the world just shows you how it is,” Irving told …
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Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet. I cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something flat:My struggle to make a flat map out of the plastic globe is indicative of a challenge mapmakers have faced for centuries: It is mathematically …
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Something tremendous is happening; over the last few weeks, without too many of its globe-headed detractors noticing, a surprisingly vast community on the tattered fringes of intellectual orthodoxy is in turmoil. A bizarre new theory has turned the flat earth upside down. The flat earth is still …
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