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Flat Earthers believe a fountain in the heart of Sydney proves their theory correctThe water feature in Darling Park’s Crescent Garden includes a flat world mapConspiracy theorists say the fountain’s design shows the real shape of the EarthEarlier this year Flat Earthers claimed Australia is a …
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She’s got a wall full of records behind her and a Wurlitzer jukebox in the corner. Her magenta lipstick is neatly applied in place like a 1950s model. She has an old school radio mic pencil holder on the desk and rich red hair that looks like it came straight out of a Kodachrome photograph. But …
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Thoughts on the Spherically Challenged Did you know Australia doesn’t exist? (Sorry, Aussies.) The entire continent is part of a massive conspiracy designed to confuse you. Anyone who says they’re from Australia is an actor (paid by NASA, probably.) And all the airline pilots are “in on it,” flying …
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Kyrie Irving, the point guard for the Boston Celtics, is a dazzling basketball player, one of the best in the world. On this, there is very little debate — and certainly not from me, a lifelong Celtics fan. His ability to creatively dribble the basketball is so singular that The Boston Globe found …
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On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket. He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. In 2002, Hughes set a Guinness World …
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To the casual observer, there is nothing remarkable about the crowd gathered in a convention room at a central Birmingham hotel. Middle managers on a staff team-building exercise, perhaps. But their conversations give them away. The clique in the corner discussing the moon landings. The man at the …
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At the end of last week, a group of people gathered in Birmingham, England for the first flat-Earth convention held in the UK. Most of the people at the convention attended because they believe in one of the most commonly held conspiracy theories of the modern era: that the Earth is flat. Similar …
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The wall of ice that holds in the oceans (AP)”Are you serious?””Yes.”That’s the first question and its answer on the Flat Earth Society’s FAQ page. Flat-earthers insist they are serious: they believe our planet is flat.That Earth is in fact spherical was proven long ago, and yet belief in its …
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Speakers recently flew in from around (or perhaps, across?) the earth for a three-day event held in Birmingham: the UK’s first ever public Flat Earth Convention. It was well attended, and wasn’t just three days of speeches and YouTube clips (though, granted, there was a lot of this). There was also …
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