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A Dreary Mythbuster
Friday, October 31, 2014
We often hear that mass shootings are not on the rise, despite our gut feelings to the contrary. But new research finds they are, in fact, happening more often.
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The Medium is the Message at 50
Friday, October 17, 2014
Fifty years ago, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
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Animating Anti-Extremism
Friday, September 26, 2014
With the gruesome ISIS propaganda war in full force, a home-grown cartoon character named Abdullah-X is the face of a grassroots approach to anti-extremism.
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The Strange True Story of Dr. Selfie
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
How I tried to break an app I was beta testing
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Confronting the Unknown
Friday, September 19, 2014
Why most Americans fear ISIS, politicians and pundits stoking terror panic on the US-Mexico border, and Nihilism: now and forever.
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Staring into the Abyss
Friday, September 19, 2014
Brooke explores our long fascination with nihilism: why it's popular today, and whether that's always been the case.
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TLDR #36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino
Monday, September 15, 2014
TLDR explores the mystery of Childish Gambino's creation myth.
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#36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino
Monday, September 15, 2014
Rapper Childish Gambino (a.k.a. actor Donald Glover) claims his rap pseudonym came from a Wu-Tang name generator. But investigating whether that's true led us on an odyssey of discovery.
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Bruce W. Bray Jr.
Friday, September 12, 2014
On the Media producer Chris Neary reports an obit of Bruce W. Bray Jr.
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TLDR #23 - A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don't Care About Bitcoin
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
The curious story of a man who was thought to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto
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TLDR #35 - Stolen Pictures
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Forbes' Kashmir Hill has covered the theft of celebrity nudes before, but the latest theft has completely changed her mind about who to blame and how to prevent them.
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TLDR #15 - Internet Time
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
In 1998 Swatch tried to completely reinvent our concept of time. Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time) would have been a new way to conceive of moments.
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The Media Came to Town
Friday, August 22, 2014
How the tidal wave of media coverage in Ferguson, Missouri is impacting locals.
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You're Being Manipulated by Reality Television (Music)
Friday, August 22, 2014
We all know that Americans watch a lot of TV. On the Media producer Laura Mayer reports on the role music plays in one of the medium’s most popular genres - reality television.
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TLDR #34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Steve Terrill is a journalist who worked in Rwanda, until he accidentally got the office of Rwanda's president to implicate itself in a long-running online harassment campaign.
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#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll
Monday, August 18, 2014
Steve Terrill is a journalist who works in Rwanda until he accidentally got the office of Rwanda's president to implicate itself in a long-running online harassment campaign.
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If They Gunned Me Down
Monday, August 11, 2014
On Twitter, people are using the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to respond to the way the media shows young black men killed by police.
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Robot Humor
Friday, August 08, 2014
We often think of robots as tools to make our lives easier. But what if they could also make our lives funnier?
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Why Are 2 Million People Still Signed up For AOL's Dial-Up Internet?
Friday, August 08, 2014
AOL released their latest financial report this week, and the biggest surprise for most people was that the company still makes a ton of money from subscriptions to dial-up internet.
