Friday, January 27, 2016 Video Letter to the Rapper B.o.B. Delivered on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, Comedy Central Listen, B.o.B., once and for all, Earth looks flat because, (1) you’re not far enough away at your size, and (2) your size isn’t large enough relative to Earth to notice any curvature at all. It’s a fundamental fact of calculus and non-Euclidean geometry that small sections of large curved surfaces will always look flat to little creatures that crawl upon it. But this whole thing is just the symptom of a larger problem. There is a growing anti-intellectual strain in this
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