Could media literacy have stopped the January 6th insurrection? If the American public had been better at checking their sources, at not sharing before they read, or at being more sceptical of what they see on their social media feeds, could that...
On Feb 13, 2021, several media outlets reported that Uttar Pradesh police had announced plans to monitor internet users’ pornography consumption, allegedly as as a move to curb crimes against women. Clarity around the program is severely lacking...
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It’s the crossover event you didn’t know you needed: an interview with an mRNA vaccine scientist who is also a furry. Chise has developed a following on Twitter for posting very informative threads about vaccine development and the subsequent...
In the 1920s and 30s, a group of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians – most prominently Rudolf Carnap, Moritz Schlick, and Otto Neurath – began meeting on campus at the University of Vienna. This period was marked both by genuine crisis –...
In January 2021, members of the /r/wallstreetbets subreddit made the stock price of GameStop ($GME) soar. As the saga drew international attention, media outlets tried to explain why an online community was now in an open conflict with Wall Street...
One night in July 1895, Sigmund Freud – then an obscure Vienna neurologist interested in hypnosis and how sexuality was determined by nose-associated “biorhythms” – had a particularly consequential dream.
The dream revolved around a patient called...
People with unusual and shocking opinions are a stalwart of daytime television talk shows. But there is a difference between platforming a conspiracy theorist as a credible source and featuring them as an object of light-hearted derision. For the...
The final season of The Leftovers – HBO’s drama about a world adapting to the aftermath of a semi-apocalyptic event – opens with a montage separate from the show’s main narrative in the present day; we’re taken to a nineteenth-century American...