As many of you may/may not know, my two wonderful colleagues and I organize an interdisciplinary lecture series on science communication, called the Science Communication Consortium. It followed on the heels of the framing debate, after I invited Chris and...
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Posted on April 21, 2008 10:46 AM • 0 Comments •
David Wallis, writing in SFGate, has a very interesting article about politics and political cartoons. I like all the historical background, although I don't entirely buy the one-sidedness of the censorship he seems to suggest: Adolf Hitler understood the power...
Posted on March 12, 2007 10:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the New Yorker, has an excellent article on Google's plan to scan all the books they can get their hands on into digital: The legal assertion at the core of Google's business plan is its purported...
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Posted on January 29, 2007 2:37 PM • 0 Comments •
Matthew Yglesias has a great satire on the hysterionics in the MSM about blogging:...
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Posted on June 26, 2006 11:46 PM • 1 Comments •
Ed Brayton and Mike Dunford have been talking about a Washington Post article on a study that is concerned with the ill effects the Daily Show and Jon Stewart are having on our democracy. Basically people who watch the Daily...
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Posted on June 26, 2006 11:24 PM • 3 Comments •