Of all the conspiracy theories that litter the Internet, the flat Earth conspiracy is quite possibly the most curious. After all, the ancient Greeks figured out the planet's shape (and even its ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...

On March 20, Mayo High School Planetarium Director Paul Larson will unveil the findings of a worldwide experiment he conducted last year. And it will show that the Earth is, indeed, a round ball. What ...

Reporting from Golden, Colo. — Moving with missionary zeal, Nathan Thompson swept into a brewpub here bearing a battered globe under his arm with the words “this is a scam” scrawled on the side. He ...

The Flat Earth Society was founded in the early 1800’s by an English inventor named Samuel Rowbotham, who wrote the book, Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe. He and his followers believed that the ...

The theory that the earth is flat reached a new audience this week, thanks to a viral video by controversial YouTube star Logan Paul. Paul, who is popular with middle school and high school students, ...

Flat Earth believers met in North Carolina to discuss ideas. — -- There are a few undisputed truths that most people agree on: The sky is blue, one plus one equals two and Earth is round. But for ...

Moving with missionary zeal, Nathan Thompson swept into a brewpub here bearing a battered globe under his arm with the words “this is a scam” scrawled on the side. He dropped the defaced orb like a ...

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