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"hey may be digital natives with instincts that allow them to use the latest app and easily share photos and video on social media platforms, but when it comes to evaluating information they access on the web, those from middle school through college aren't nearly as knowledgeable as some might think. In fact, they can't tell an ad from a news story or hate group propaganda from factual material from a respected news outlet. In fact, the Stanford History Education Group described students' reasoning ability when it comes to Internet information as "bleak." The group's 18-month project, "Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning," looked at "the ability to judge the credibility of information that floods young people's smartphones, tablets and computers.""

"Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled "40 maps they didn't teach you in school," one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they're no less fascinating and easily understandable. A majority are original to this blog, with others from a variety of sources."

SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They were the kind of photos that every parent takes, but one in particular stood out: Stephen wearing a pair of red overalls, smiling in a crib. " The photo had faded from memory until last July, when Mr. Rout, curious about his online reputation, did a Google search of himself. Deep within the results pages, he found the picture of Stephen. Only, it wasn't exactly the same picture. He was surrounded by cartoonish word bubbles filled with Japanese writing: "Don't call me baby!" they read. "Call me Mr. Baby!" And there were other images in which the photo was transformed further: Stephen has a pompadour in one, a head full of snakes in another. His face was pasted onto Kurt Cobain's head, carved into Mount Rushmore and tattooed onto David Beckham's torso. He was an eight-bit video game character. He became a three-dimensional sculpture.

Nearly 100 years have passed since their ideologies clashed concerning the best way to improve the plight of African-Americans. Dubois said we could show white people we were their equals through intellectualism and liberal arts education. Here's the full text of Dubois' The Souls of Black Folk. And Mr. Dubois' response to Mr. Washington is here. Washington said that the only way we could become equal was to create our own businesess, learn trades and create an economic base in which we owned the capital, land and economic resources. Here's Washington's Up From Slavery in full text. So I ask you -- a 100 years later, who won? Who had the best suggestion? Was there a best suggestion? Were they both right?