For years, Flat Earth supporters argued that simple observations could prove the Earth wasn't a globe. Then some decided to ...

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 ...

The flat earth debate just got even more absurd. Veteran conspiracy theorist Mark Sargent believes scientists wear lab coats as part of a performance meant to “sell the globe.” In this breakdown, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a project dubbed The Final Experiment, a group of Flat Earth proponents traveled to Antarctica at the height of summer in the ...

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In the first part of this series, she weighs up the idea that the Earth could really be flat… In 1838, Samuel Rowbotham, an English inventor and flat-Earth proponent, conducted a bizarre experiment on ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Silmarillion and the future fate of Númenor in the Tolkien legendarium.Sometimes, even the strangest conspiracy theories turn out to be true, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. More than 2,000 years ago, a Greek mathematician proved that the surface of the Earth was curved and not flat. That mathematician was Eratosthenes, who was ...