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Eleven undergraduates and four graduate students traveled to the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago, IL to present original research.

The Biden regime wanders in a funhouse of its own making.     By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News  Of all the amateurish moments to arise as the Biden regime conducts its foreign policy, the White House’s official statement as B1–B bombers let loose over Iraq and Syria last Fri

Opinion columnist Barth Keck says we shouldn't expect any substantive solutions to the misinformation problem from social-media platforms, especially when it comes to political information. As the election season gears up, emotionally-charged, fact-challenged posts – the very content that attracts the most clicks – will only increase. The Facebooks, Instagrams, and TikToks of the digital world aren’t likely to put a stop to those cash cows.

James Tour, Ph.D., is a synthetic organic chemist at Rice University. He has about 650 research publications and over 200 patents. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. In 2014, he was named among the 50 most influential scientists in the world, as well as "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds."…

Watching sensationalized, people-pandering content can slowly erode your ability to tell right from wrong.

Lakeland letters to the editor for Jan. 29, 2023

Illusory Truth Effect postulates that there is a tendency for some people to see untrue information as true, if exposed to that information repeatedly.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled the resetting of the Doomsday Clock on January 20th, 2022, electing to keep the clock’s setting at 100 seconds to midnight, same as 2021, which is not at all encouraging since that’s as bad as the setting has ever been. The past few resets of the incomparable clock […]