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Why has fake news persisted? We've built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions of human behavior: We're not inclined to vet the information our friends show us because we've curated the experience to highlight things that are important to our network...
The American history of the political yard sign may date back to 1824 when John Quincy Adams had signs printed for his presidential run. Our current wireframe version seems to have originated in the 1960s...
Organizations need a mechanism to evaluate potential options for change. Is there anything salvageable from the postmortem?
Maybe it's Michael Myers. Maybe it's a jumbie. But chances are it's something else. The real question is: Why are we all afraid of it?
There was a time when the Victorian facade was a prevalent status symbol in the United States. How did these houses go from celebrated to creepy?
Questions of bathroom access tend to have the greatest impact on the poor and the marginalized.
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions?
Why have cats taken over the Internet?
Although it doesn’t quite seem that we’re ready to chat in all emojis and only emojis, they are serving to modify our responses and add meaning in an environment where it could otherwise be difficult to interpret meaning...
Social media has made digital voyeurism the norm, but some of us are more inclined to pursue online surveillance than others
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