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This article provides an over-view of the latets science around one of the oldest questions since human beings started asking questions. Why do some people talk to themselves? It's not necessarily a better or worse thinking style, but it is clearly a different thinking style from the people who don't have long running internal conversaions.

This is technically from Washpo's "fact checker ( Read more... )

PEW has this survey showing fairly positive marks for Obama, along with the feeling that he didn't manage to do a lot to address the major problems facing the country ( Read more... )

Of people claiming a religious affiliation, Jews are by far the most educated in the world. This, of course, has a lot to do with population concentration. Having been kicked out of every country good K-12 education is not broadly available, we are now primarily located in the U.S. and Israel. Please note that in Israel, we built the education ( Read more... )

In today's Girl Genius, the engine on the flying machine bears a stylized "Wankel."
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.WGZnQrYrLBI

Wankel is the name of a rotary powered cylinder engine that was hailed as a potentially revolutionary design, but problems ( Read more... )

Made a late decision to go to Arisia. I see that the Westin is full. Anybody have space for me to crash at the Westin? Becky is staying home so I can take floor space if need be.

Allow me to illustrate everything wrong with our real press as opposed to our fake press. At yesterday's FCC Meeting, the Commission voted 5-0 to approve rules for an upgrade of the technology used by the deaf and hard of hearing communities from TTY to Realtime Text.

In the hundreds of articles covering the FCC meeting yesterday, only one news ( Read more... )

I want to highly recommend this report from the Shorenstien Center.
http://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-el…/

What is important about it is that it links what many people have been saying about the press and its coverage with the historical trends in news coverage.

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Good snapshot with interesting data, notably that African Americans are most likely to rely on cellular rather than wireless, and the Latinos use the most mobile data overall. Not sure what these mean, but they are interesting to know. http://www.