Category: In the news
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Easter Sunday/Kathryn’s first big bike ride.
The weather was 60’s, bright and sunny, with little or no wind. Great for Kitkat’s first bike ride. Liz rode Kitkat. Grandma rode Peggy-Jeanne, and Pops rode alone. We went all the way to the new bridge at 41st and then back down to the Midway Plaisance, and then looped back. She loved it.
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He’s melting to make a point about climate change
http://designtaxi.com/news/399556/NGO-Aims-To-Carve-Trump-s-Face-Into-An-Iceberg-To-Show-Global-Warming-Is-Real/?utm_source=DT_Newsletter&utm_medium=DT_Newsletter&utm_campaign=DT_Newsletter_08052018&utm_term=DT_Newsletter_08052018&utm_content=DT_Newsletter_08052018 NGO Aims To Carve Trump’s Face Into An Iceberg To Show Global Warming Is Real By Izza Sofia, 08 May 2018 “A Finnish NGO is planning to carve President Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. To prove that global warming exists, The Melting Ice Association is raising US$500,000 to chisel Trump’s face into a…
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Need a handy folktale with a lesson? Try the ATU
The Multilingual Folk Tale Database This is a good story about the ATU database, with some very nice illustrations. What a helpful index. It allows you to look for the specific lessons to impart to your children or grandchildren.
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Built in bias
One of the biases that people rely on when they make decisions is loss aversion: like in the insurance example above, they tend to overweight small probabilities to guard against losses. Even though the likelihood of a costly event may be miniscule, we would rather agree to a smaller, sure loss — in the form…
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A look at BLM (#BlackLivesMatter) via tweetstream
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology looked at nearly 29 million tweets surrounding four recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) events to identify the social media patterns of its activists. They found that the community is unlike many other social movements because of its ability to bond over the course of many months. (via The…
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Reflection on accuracy in journalism & Judith Miller
Judith Miller was invited to speak at SPJ back in 2005. I was still getting used to being a journalist, and I couldn’t believe the way many of the traditional journalists just took what she said as gospel. She seemed like a shill for the Bush administration to me; a beltway sycophant. Despite persuading…
Barbara K Iverson 