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Tune in, as we analyze, dissect and critically discus what it’s like to live a modern world of globalization and popular culture as an African in or outside of the diaspora. We highlight how social media has become a critical tool that allows Africans to express themselves is various ways and keep the heritage alive. We mainly explore the contributions of social media content creators and contemporary African art and their contribution to the advancement of the continent as a whole.

In this podcast, I argue that pseudoscientific theories are based on emotions rather than evidence. I draw evidence from several resources that dissect several emotional factors which have led those who identify as Flat Earther’s to believe that the shape of the earth is flat like a disk rather than its scientifically proven spherical shape. I first look at their emotional attachments to religion, then I expand on their fear of being duped by big corporations and finally, how the sense of community that their fellow round earth deniers give them on the internet. We take a look at how the internet serves as an echo chamber that only shows them what they want to see, preventing them from exploring other possibilities or beliefs. References: Amrhein, V., Korner-Nievergelt, F., & Roth, T. (2017). The earth is flat ( p  > 0.05): significanc thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research. PeerJ (San Francisco, CA), 5, e3544–e3544. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3544 Brazil, R. (2020). Fighting flat-Earth theory. Physics World, 33(7), 35–39. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/33/7/34 Kuzii, O., & Rovenchak, A. (2019). What the gravitation of a flat Earth would look like and why thus the Earth is not actually flat. European Journal of Physics, 40(3), 35008–. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/ab0bba Jubilee. (2020). Flat Earthers vs Scientists: Can We Trust Science? Middle Ground. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yvvq-9ytE Landrum, A., Olshansky, A., & Richards, O. (2019). Differential susceptibility to misleading flat earth arguments on youtube. Media Psychology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1669461. Picheta, R. (2019, November 18). The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe. Does it hide a darker core? Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/flat-earth-conference-conspiracy-theories-scli-intl/index.HTML Walchover, N. (2017). Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious? Retrieved from https://www.livescience.com/24310-flat-earth-belief.html. Weber, M. J. (2018). How the Internet Made Us Believe in a Flat Earth. Retrieved from https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/how-the-internet-made-us-believe-in-a-flat-earth-2e42c3206223