Shakespeare’s “Claudius” is Innocent
CW: Major spoilers for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Pierre Bayard’s essay “Enquête sur Hamlet: le Dialogue de Sourds” In Enquête sur Hamlet, an essay still unpublished in English, Pierre Bayard highlights…
A dive into Zetetic Astronomy: understanding contemporary flat earth beliefs
Contemporary flat earth beliefs originate from the mid-nineteenth century, coming from Samuel Birley Rowbotham’s book Zetetic Astronomy: Earth not a Globe. This book laid out Rowbotham’s view of the earth…
The end isn’t nigh, so why do we still listen to those who claim otherwise?
Some of you will perhaps remember that the world ended in 2012. Or at least, it was supposed to. Due to the unfortunate crossover of a prediction in the Aztec…
Making a conspiracy: the truth is already out here
Conspiracy theories range from the relatively harmless (that the moon landings were faked, or that Avril Lavigne really died in 2007) to the genuinely dangerous (denying climate change or the…