The Bad News, Cassini’s Last Word, Galactic Archaeology, Smelly Fruit, Disturbing Mouse Calls, Neandertals Now & Then, Brains & Nerves & Things, New Vesuvius View, Fish Hook Ethics, Is Hubble Safe?, And Much More…

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Imagine for a moment that something you think you know is wrong.

Not just any old tid-bit of information,

but something big…

Something fundamental to your understanding of other things that you know and believe.

You wake up one morning to breaking news headlines to learn that:

The sun is actually orbiting around the earth.

Now that would be a tremendous change to how you understand the solar system to operate.

And, if you are sufficiently skeptical,

slightly scientifically informed even…

You will likely doubt that this new information is true.

You may wonder why this is obviously incorrect idea is being propagated.

Yes, the experts and reporters are all exclaiming the evidence

of the recent research that has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt

that it is true…

The sun orbits the earth,

and it was just a poor understanding of the past that lead us to believe otherwise…

But you wouldn’t believe it.

How could you?

It makes no sense,

goes against all you know and learned.

Goes against how much the people you trusted knew more than you…

actually knew.

No.

You will not be swayed by any form of false evidence to the contrary.

The world may have gone mad,

but you alone will maintain the reasonable assumption

that the Earth is in orbit around the Sun and NOT the other way round.