Steven Pinker

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Canadian Scientist

Imagine a squished ball to understand a spheroid's stretched shape.

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In science, 'spheroid' describes Earth-like shapes, stressing its 3D geometry.

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Use 'spheroid' for precision in technical or academic discussions about shapes.

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 didn't know and for me I quickly landed on this one the earth has a tolerance of a point seventeen percent from the reference spheroid which is less than the point twenty two percent allowed in billiard balls this is the kind of fact I would have loved as a boy I found it myself it's got some math that I can do

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 You can come back to Earth. You return to where you started. You can finish your game. You just need to find one more fact that you didn't know. And for me, I quickly landed on this The Earth has a tolerance of about .17 percent from the reference spheroid,

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