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"Ephemeral experiences": You might never have heard this phrase, but it's a very important concept. These are brief experiences you have online in which content appears briefly and then disappears, leaving no trace. Those are the kinds of experiences we have been preserving in our election monitoring projects. You can't see the search results that Google was showing you last month. They're not stored anywhere, so they leave no paper trail for authorities to trace. Ephemeral experiences are, it turns out, quite a powerful tool of manipulation. Are people at companies like Google aware of the p...

Collaborations that integrate diverse perspectives are critical to addressing many of our complex scientific and societal problems. Yet those engaged in cross-disciplinary team science often face institutional barriers and collaborative challenges.  Strategies for Team Science Success offers readers a comprehensive set of actionable strategies for reducing barriers and overcoming challenges and includes practical guidance for how to implement effective team science practices. More than 100 experts--including scientists, administrators, and funders from a wide range of disciplines and profes...

It's awfully hard to wrap your mind around a sum that large. But converting it to a more bite-size representation can affect a voter's willingness to support government spending.

© press Many web users are now turning against Big Tech giants such as Google Many people are now starting to fight back against Big Tech and reject the internet giants that are actively seeking to manipulate the public. Left-wing companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook control the vast majority of the world's information flow on the internet. Being put at the top of the results for Google's search engine results for search is not only incredibly lucrative, but it is also immensely powerful in global affairs. Since 2016, according to multiple reports, Google’s algorithm has been incr...

Retired nurse on mission to urge people of color to get COVID-19 vaccine Feb 18, 2021 catholic news service Joyce Christian, along with her husband, Will, walk with their grandchildren in Somerville, Tenn., in this undated photo. She is a retired nurse who encourages African Americans and other people of color to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (Credit: CNS photo/Karen Pulfer Focht.) Joyce Christian understands firsthand why many Black people and other people of color are hesitant and mistrust the medical community. Her father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was unknowingly a part of the U. S. Public Health Se...