Throw back to my summer road trip. Prairie-fire, in the mountains
Throw back to my summer road trip. Prairie-fire, in the mountains
The look, and the social nature of knowledge
When I was growing up I was bad with context. Super bad. My young logic-oriented self…
Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?
I tend to think that comms advice for scientists is also comms advice for everyone. Here’s…
Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
Cognition trick: the Google Effect
We’ve developed a habit of forgetting, or declining to remember, the information that is readily available…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
The dominant press is a giant inertia machine
But here’s an old idea: what if dominant journalism, by and large and in the long…
Archiving and curation
When we stare at paradoxes long enough, they can sometimes lose their mystery. When this happens…