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Everything We Know Is Wrong

Jesse Walker | 1.12.2009 4:55 PM

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Two more reminders that a great deal of what we "know" about the world is speculative, unsettled, or just plain inaccurate:

* The settlement now called Istanbul is apparently 6,000 years older than previously believed.

* The Milky Way Galaxy is apparently 50 percent more massive than previously believed.

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Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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