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Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically – and not for the ..

Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically -- and not for the better. On dominant social media platforms like Facebook, researchers have documented that falsehoods spread faster and more widely than similar content that includes accurate information. Though users are not demanding misinformation, the algorithms that determine what people see tend to favour sensational, inaccurate and misleading content,...

 

His class-clown act on the BBC was lame and cynical.

Or why I might give my daughter an iPad

The televised Jan. 6 hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. They are a desperate ploy by a doomed political class. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com The Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose first of six televised hearing

Daniel J. Mahoney's new book, 'The Statesman as Thinker,' ably diagnoses the many modern problems preventing us producing great leaders.

The wreck of the “Endurance” was found—as was footage of it actually going down. The magazine cover as a contrary indicator. The Gender Pay Gap Bot called out hypocritical companies on IWD. Why do bottles have indented bottoms? And why did bottles used to have rounded bottoms? An excellent webinar on graphene in textiles. Hooking synthesizers to plants, for some reason. Seattle is being sued by fish. A “smart mirror” that actually sounds kind of cool. A box of human heads was stolen fr...

Neil Postman was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed technology, including personal computers in school and cruise control in cars,[1] and is best known for twenty books regarding technology and education, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1982) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995).

By Dr. Regis Martin - There is a great divide in this country, one which has gone largely unnoticed, between those who read and those who won’t.