#ThinkBeforeSharing - Stop the spread of conspiracy theories

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds - Peqon In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a random individual, the other by a person who had subsequently taken his own life. Oscar Wilde Quotes On October 16, 1854, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. He would go on to become one of the world's most prolific writers, dabbling in everything from plays and poetry to essays and fiction. Whatever the medium, his wit shone through. 1. How I Time-Travel to Parent My Adult Son So not only are you searching for your identity, but you are also able to empathize with others, even your parents. You are stepping out from the nest and looking for the trade winds that will throw you around for the next 60 years. And the people who can best help you, the ones who coaxed you through the first 20 years, probably don’t remember what it was like to be floundering on a fickle breeze. Or their memories have been altered by time, Dr. Chaudhary said. When I look back to my 20s, I see a linear path to where I am today.

Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous It was hard times for the bomber pilots that floated over Europe, their planes incinerating cities below, like birds of prey. Even as they turned the once-bustling streets beneath to howling firestorms, death had become a close companion to the crews of the Allied bombers as well. In fact, surviving a tour with the Bomber Command had become a virtual coin flip. While their munitions fell mutely from bomb bays, an upward sleet of fire from smoldering city grids and darkened farmland shot the planes out of the sky like clay pigeons.

Pondering Presidents — Who Got ‘Polked’? What is it about making a list of Worst Presidents that’s so much more fun than debating who’s the best? The clear answer right now is that it gives us a chance to argue about whether Donald Trump goes at the very end. Gives any summer cookout debate a whole new flavor. The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago As early as 1958, the oil industry was hiring scientists and engineers to research the role that burning fossil fuels plays in global warming. The goal at the time was to help the major oil conglomerates understand how changes in the Earth’s atmosphere may affect the industry – and their bottom line. But what top executives gained was an early preview of the climate crisis, decades before the issue reached public consciousness. What those scientists discovered – and what the oil companies did with that information – is at the heart of two dozen lawsuits attempting to hold the fossil fuel industry responsible for their role in climate change.

Time might only exist in your head, say physicists click 2x Out of all the pressures we face in our everyday lives, there’s no denying that the nature of time has the most profound effect. As our days, weeks, months, and years go by, time moves from past to present to future, and never the other way around. But according to the physics that govern our Universe, the same things will occur regardless of what direction time is travelling in. And now physicists suggest that gravity isn’t strong enough to force every object in the Universe into a forward-moving direction anyway. So does time as we know it actually exist, or is it all in our heads? First off, let’s run through a little refresher about the so-called arrow of time.

In Defense of Gossip Some believe that evangelical pastors denounce gossip to protect themselves against its power to expose secrets and weaken their own status. Chrissy Stroop, an ex-evangelical and a co-editor of the book of first-person essays “Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church,” is a firm believer in that theory. “These men believe God has granted them authority and that women cannot have authority over men,” Ms. Stroop told me, “and that gossip is a threat to their reputations and power — reputations that are often undeserved and power that is often exploited abusively.” The ousting of the celebrity pastor Carl Lentz from the Hillsong East Coast church at the end of 2020 is a good example of how gossip can bring a powerful church leader to his knees.

The Dunning Kruger Effect or Why Stupid People Think They Are Smart - Learning Mind We all know someone who thinks they’re smarter than they are. But before you judge, you’d better check you are free from the Dunning Kruger Effect. The theory of this effect was developed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University. They found that this cognitive bias occurs when people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or incompetence — at a task and consider themselves to be more competent than they actually are. The theory is also commonly known as ‘Mount Stupid‘. According to the Urban Dictionary, Mount Stupid is ‘the place where you have enough knowledge of a subject to be vocal about it, without the wisdom to gather the full facts or read around the topic‘.