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Category Archives: Internet
Travelling Without Geography
Most people around the world marvel when American television shows feature street geography quizzes and Americans cannot point to a single country on a map. The subsequent discussion usually centres around the failing American education system, the geographical ignorance that … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Culture, Education, Internet, Self-reliance, Travel
Tagged Australian Aborigines, dreamlines, Geography, maps, mound builders, Roadside Assistance, silk road, songline
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Winnipeg Bus Conversations
Conversations on public transit are less frequent with each passing year. Although print media in the form of books and newspapers have always protected the less socialized from interaction, that has been exacerbated by the use of smart phones. Normally … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, Social Media, Solitude, Winnipeg
Tagged conversation, online dating, Socializing, winnipeg bus system
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The Dunning–Kruger Effect
He didn’t mean to laugh, but he was easily overcome by the mangled sentences coming out of the man’s mouth. It was a kind of disorder, that he couldn’t control himself once someone was mangling their words so much as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged conspiracy, Dunning-Kruger, invisible man
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When Plagiarism Goes Wrong
One of the ways that students plagiarize, at least when they take material from online and attempt to incorporate it into their papers, is to run a thesaurus function—such as the synonym option in MSword—on certain words. They seldom trouble … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Internet, Teaching
Tagged plagiarism, student writing, Thomas King
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Please Leave a Message
In the early nineties answering machines on phones were ubiquitous, which means that nearly everyone had left a message on one and therefore knew what to do upon hearing the greeting. For some reason, that didn’t stop people from leaving … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Social Media
Tagged answering machines, Facebook, technology, youtube
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Maybe the Algorithms are Working Against Us
Most news, internet search, and social media platforms have optimized their offerings to suit what their viewers most frequently choose to see. That makes sense in terms of ad dollars, for they want to have a targetable demographic, but as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Internet, Media, News, Politics, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged Corporate responsibility, echo chamber, Education, Facebook, H. G. Wells, mass shootings, media, Religion, right-wing politics, school shootings, Social Media, twitter, white supremacy, World Brain
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Serendipity and Other People’s Hard Work: Contributing to Intellectual Society
Many years ago, when I used to build computers from found parts, installing hard drives was much more of an ordeal. You needed to look up the serial number of the hard drive in a database—if you were lucky enough … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Mars, Teaching
Tagged artifical gravity, orbital mechanics, science fiction, simulated gravity, youtube
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The Contamination of Ideas: Truth and Lies in the Internet Age
A recent encounter reminds me that notions of knowledge and how it is gained can be subjective. I was told by a young person that a documentary watched by their mother—they didn’t even see the documentary themselves—argued that there was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, News, News of the World, Social Media
Tagged a New World Order, auras, birthers, Competent Receiver, contrails behind jets, Facebook bubble, fact checkers, flat earth, Fox News, H. G. Wells, holocaust denial, homeopathy, Indonesia, Malaysia, Muslim-majority countries, Muslims, post-fact world, power of prayer, prayer, refrigerator lights, santa, sunspots and climate change, the flood in Genesis, the use of fluoride, the world trade centre bombing, Trump, UFOs, vaccines, weather control, white supremacy, World Brain
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Magazines and the Internet
I was watching a video on YouTube about a man who was setting up his wilderness cabin. Although he spent most of his time complaining about a snow storm that was sweeping through his area I was most struck by … Continue reading
Checking Your Delusions
The method for checking our many delusions—that the Harry Potter letter is going to arrive for us any moment, that god is carefully listening to my prayers about the cancer He gave my mother, that the earth is flat, the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Internet, News of the World, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged climate change denial, Council of Nicaea, delusions, Eratosthenes, existence of god, flat earth, flouride in the water, Harry Potter, moon landing hoax, scientific discovery, Watchmaker's Analogy, William Paley
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