Meteorologist Is Naming Heatwaves After Big Polluting Oil Companies (kottke.org)
Social media can in fact be made better: Research shows it is possible to reward users for sharing accurate information instead of misinformation (theconversation.com)
‘Politicians don’t understand science’: advisers give evidence at UK COVID inquiry (www.nature.com)
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking (www.themarginalian.org)
Joe Rogan wants a "debate" on vaccine science. Don’t give it to him. How to have better conversations about contentious scientific subjects. (www.vox.com)
Take the time and effort to correct misinformation - Nature (www.nature.com)
Disinformation Is the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health (www.scientificamerican.com)
How Twitter broke the news (www.theverge.com)
Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are industrial pollutants (bigthink.com)
How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades (en.wikipedia.org)
'You can’t bullshit a bullshitter' (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information (psyarxiv.com)
Google Isn’t Grad School: Having so much information at our fingertips is useful but seductive, easily fooling us into thinking we know more than we do. (www.theatlantic.com)
It's About to Be Much Harder for Rural Alaskans to Get Their Weather Forecast (gizmodo.com)
Weather is big news in Alaska. In a place where many people’s lives and livelihoods are directly tied to the environment, knowing what’s in the forecast is often a question of survival. Very soon though, the state’s most reliable source of meteorology media is set to disappear....
Liberals and Conservatives Differ on Climate Change Beliefs—But Are Relatively United in Taking Action (www.nyu.edu)
Lie-to-children - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free (phys.org)
Understanding how the brain works can transform how school students learn maths (theconversation.com)
Anyone can play Tetris, but architects, engineers and animators alike use the math concepts underlying the game (phys.org)
How to become a 'supercommunicator' (www.bbc.com)
How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future (www.nytimes.com)
JSTOR is Now Available in 1,000 Prisons - News - About JSTOR (about.jstor.org)
In twitter we trust(ed): How perceptions of Twitter's helpfulness influence news post credibility perceptions and news engagement (www.sciencedirect.com)
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes (www.youtube.com)
Educational applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering (falstad.com)
Navigating the 'Memosphere' (faculty.dartmouth.edu)
