With the beginning of the college academic year, those of us teaching this fall are drafting various course syllabi — seeing what might be worth revisiting, such as new readings that might be added. But all too often, the upfront syllabus boilerplate sections are overlooked since they are cut and pasted from previous versions of
We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.” “It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.” She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change.
There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see — the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with. You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine, through methods both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular
Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta’s photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan. Despite some early glitches, 30 million people had signed up before
Photo courtesy of DepositPhotos Independence Day 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the July 4, 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence by Delegates to the Second Continental Congress. America’s Revolutionary War was already underway. First shots were fired by Minutemen over a year earlier— April 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts. The purpose of the Declaration was to set
Photo courtesy of DepositPhotos Independence Day 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the July 4, 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence by Delegates to the Second Continental Congress. America’s Revolutionary War was already underway. First shots were fired by Minutemen over a year earlier— April 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts. The purpose of the Declaration was to set