“Uncommon Knowledge” edited by Tom Standage (2019)

“‘Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination,’ wrote Joseph Addison, an English essayist and poet.”

If Twitter has taught us anything (other than that many people, once given anonymity, become abusive and racist) it’s that everyone has an opinion. Most of the time, however, those opinions are ill-informed or spit directly in the face of direct evidence. How else does one explain Flat Earthers, or people who think the pandemic was caused by 5G? Really, if people just ...