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in title, tags, annotations or urlHow to avoid covid-19 hoax stories? - The Washington Post - 1 views
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How good are people at sifting out fake news?
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we’ve been investigating whether ordinary individuals who encounter news when it first appears online — before fact-checkers like Snopes and PolitiFacts have an opportunity to issue reports about an article’s veracity — are able to identify whether articles contain true or false information.
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Unfortunately, it seems quite difficult for people to identify false or misleading news, and the limited number of coronavirus news stories in our collection are no exception
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Have we got Machiavelli all wrong? | Books | The Guardian - 0 views
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The quickest way, it says, is to have fortune on your side from the outset, with plenty of inherited money and a leg up through family connections.
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Make the people your best friend. Promise to protect their interests against predatory elites and foreigners.
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he recommended them – that he himself is the original Machiavellian, the first honest teacher of dishonest politics.
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Overinterpretation is very tricky because we never know certain of what other people are trying to say. Especially when we are studying the words of people in the history. People are never consistent with themselves, and I think that's why life is so interesting. People love the coming of age stories because you never know where the character will go. The same with people in the history. They are not black or white. They are a mix. But our confirmation bias always make us unconsciously select the words from them that support our opinion. Although we always say we can learn from the history, what we actually are doing is just agreeing on stuff that we have already agreed with. This is not real learning. --Sissi (3/4/2017)
I know they've seen my message - so why haven't they replied? | Culture | The Guardian - 0 views
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Ah, the tyranny of read receipts – enough to put you off digital communication for good.
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It sounds straightforward enough, even perfunctory, and indeed it is if it’s only a blip in the back-and-forth. But when a message lingers on “seen” without explanation for anything beyond a few minutes, you’ve been “left on read”. It’s enough to make even the most self-assured individuals question their worth.
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It works both ways, too: if you’ve read a message that you’re either unable or unwilling to respond to immediately, the countdown has already started.
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I totally agree with the author that the read receipts should be optional. I personally have some issue with the read receipt because I don't like to reply instantly except it is a urgent message. I like to take some time to think about what I want to comment on or write back. Although the society now likes to be fast and instant, I am still a slow person. I feel the read receipt is forcing me and giving me pressure to be fast and instant.
A Homebody President Sits Out His Honeymoon Period - The New York Times - 0 views
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Mr. Trump, who dislikes spending the night away from home and has been adapting to life at the White House, has rarely ventured far from the Executive Mansion or his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida during his first 85 days in office. He has not strayed west of the Mississippi River, appearing at public events in only seven states and eschewing trips overseas.
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“Trump is going to his own drummer, as usual. It’s a risky strategy.”
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“When you’re president, you don’t travel to get frequent flier miles — you travel to make a point,”
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I think this comparison of Mr. Trump with other presidents might be a little biased. Every president has their own policies so I think it is not appropriate to compare the time they spend traveling. Since Mr. Trump's focus is on domestic policy so it is sort of reasonable for him to spend more time with in the United States. However, in the latter half of the article, the author talked about the quality of Mr. Trump's staying. Indeed, I agree with author that Mr. Trump's staying is not very efficient. I think the frequency of traveling shouldn't be the measure of their presidency, but the quality and efficiency of their action and decision should be weighted. --Sissi (4/17/2017)
Misogyny Fuels Violence Against Women. Should It Be a Hate Crime? - The New York Times - 0 views
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Misogyny Fuels Violence Against Women. Should It Be a Hate Crime?
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Experts say the everyday harassment women have learned to put up with — the catcalling and lewd gestures — connects directly with more serious abuses.
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“Men who kill women do not suddenly kill women, they work up to killing women.”
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Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | World news | The Guardian - 1 views
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Roger Zelazny, published his third novel. In many ways, Lord of Light was of its time, shaggy with imported Hindu mythology and cosmic dialogue. Yet there were also glints of something more forward-looking and political.
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accelerationism has gradually solidified from a fictional device into an actual intellectual movement: a new way of thinking about the contemporary world and its potential.
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Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified – either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative.
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How Joe Biden's Digital Team Tamed the MAGA Internet - The New York Times - 1 views
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it’s worth looking under the hood of the Biden digital strategy to see what future campaigns might learn from it.
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while the internet alone didn’t get Mr. Biden elected, a few key decisions helped his chances.
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1. Lean On Influencers and Validators
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'Social recession': how isolation can affect physical and mental health | Coronavirus | The Guardian - 0 views
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Long-term, isolation even increases the risk of premature death. It’s being called a “social recession”
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“People who are more socially connected show less inflammation, conversely people who are more isolated and lonely show increased chronic inflammation.
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“Loneliness increases earlier death by 26%, social isolation by 29% and living alone by 32%.”
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Universe Is Created, According to Kepler - HISTORY - 0 views
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On April 27, 4977 B.C., the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science
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Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets.
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Kepler’s main project was to investigate the orbit of Mars.
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Copernicus, the Revolutionary who Feared Changing the World | OpenMind - 0 views
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The sages had placed the Earth at the centre of the universe for nearly two thousand years until Copernicus arrived on the scene and let it spin like a top around the Sun, as we know it today.
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Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) was not the first to explain that everything revolves around the Sun, but he did it so thoroughly, in that book, that he initiated a scientific revolution against the universal order established by the greatest scholar ever known, the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
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Aristotle said in the fourth century BC that a mystical force moved the Sun and the planets in perfect circles around the Earth. Although this was much to the taste of the Church, in order to fit this idea with the strange movements of the planets seen in the sky, astronomers had to resort to the mathematical juggling that another Greek, Ptolemy, invented in the second century AD.
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Facebook to ban white nationalism and separatism content | Technology | The Guardian - 2 views
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After three months of consultation with academic experts in racist extremism, Facebook announced on Wednesday, it concluded that white nationalism “cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups.
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The company suggested in a post announcing the change that it had originally seen white nationalism as an acceptable point of view, similar to American nationalism, or Basque separatism.
Animals could help reveal why humans fall for optical illusions | Laura and Jennifer Kelley | Science | theguardian.com - 0 views
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they remind us of the discrepancy between perception and reality. But our knowledge of such illusions has been largely limited to studying humans.
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Understanding whether these illusions arise in different brains could help us understand how evolution shapes visual perception.
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illusions not only reveal how visual scenes are interpreted and mentally reconstructed, they also highlight constraints in our perception.
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In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints - 0 views
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Many Americans who long for Europe’s hate speech restrictions assume that those laws are used to outlaw and punish expression of the bigoted ideas they most hate: racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny. Often, such laws are used that way. There are numerous cases in western Europe and Canada of far-right extremists being arrested, fined, or even jailed for publicly spouting that type of overt bigotry.
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Does anyone doubt that high on the list of “hate speech” for many U.S. officials, judges, and functionaries would be groups, such as Black Lives Matter and antifa, far-left groups that fight against white supremacists?
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In The Guardian, Richard Seymour went further and said that “Ahmed is the latest victim of a concerted effort to redefine racism as ‘anything that could conceivably offend white people.'”
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30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking - HISTORY - 0 views
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But each Thursday, one of Argentina’s most famous public squares fills with women wearing white scarves and holding signs covered with names.
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They are the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and they are there to bring attention to something that threw their lives into tragedy and chaos during the 1970s: the kidnapping of their children and grandchildren by Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship.
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For decades, the women have been advocating for answers about what happened to their loved ones. It’s a question shared by the families of up to 30,000 people “disappeared” by the state during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” a period during which the country’s military dictatorship turned against its own people.
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'Pretty nervy of you!': Trump's Palm Beach billionaire spat - POLITICO - 0 views
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After the chilly exchange, which Greene described to POLITICO, everyone parted ways and went to the club’s dining room for a bite. But the president didn’t let it go.
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“You spent millions of dollars and came in fifth!” Trump taunted, according to Greene.
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Whether in the privacy of his clubs or out on the campaign trail, the president can’t help but hold onto a grudge.
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William James on Science and Spirituality, the Limits of Materialism, and the Existential Art of Assenting to the Universe - Brain Pickings - 0 views
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At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether
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“I live my life with the idea that the universe can be described by a set of physical laws that are quantifiable and knowable, and that they apply anywhere in the universe, and that’s an assumption,” NASA astrophysicist Natalie Batalha — a modern-day Carl Sagan — reflected in our On Being conversation. Assumption is a species of belief, or rather the genome of all belief — which is why Sagan himself asserted in his superb meditation on science and religion, based on his 1985 Gifford Lectures in Scotland, that “if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”
For many, the first line of defense against Covid-19 is out of reach - CNN - 0 views
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Washing your hands frequently, with plenty of water and soap, is one of the simplest and most effective measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Yet due to a lack of water supply and indoor plumbing, three-quarters of households in the developing world won't be able to follow this advice, Tim Wainwright of the nonprofit WaterAid told The Guardian, because they lack some place to wash with soap and water. How will they cope when the pandemic escalates and there is no clean water to help stop contagion?
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The pandemic may be raging in Europe and the US, but it is spreading across Asia, Africa and Latin America, from where it may yet return to strike the Northern Hemisphere again. This pandemic is a global threat, and it will not be defeated until our most vulnerable communities are safe. One of the crucial ways of keeping them safe is to ensure they have access to safe water and sanitation; never has the sixth UN Sustainable Development Goal, which aims to ensure just this by 2030, been more vital for saving and protecting lives.
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Two years ago, Cape Town in South Africa came perilously close to "Day Zero" -- the day its 3.7 million residents would run out of water. Strict water rationing has been the order of the day ever since. Water scarcity increases the burden on the poorest of the poor -- women who must walk for miles to find water and carry it back to their homes. And, of course, water scarcity makes the challenge of delivering clean water and sanitation much more complex.
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