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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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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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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 