In the experiment, the college students learned a simple but unfamiliar mathematical system, essentially a set of rules. Some learned the system through purely abstract symbols, and others learned it through concrete examples like combining liquids in measuring cups and tennis balls in a container. ...
Retribution is one of those words, like gay, clue, and peculiar, which has shifted in meaning over time. We think of it as punishment only, revenge for the sake of revenge. But its meaning becomes clearer, especially when trying to understand classical writers, when we consider it in the ...
It is so interesting to me that one of the reasons God restrains wicked rulers is to preserve his people in faithfulness. It is true that there are such great examples of faithfulness in times of persecution, but we also pray and thank God for cutting persecution short for the sake of br...
who explained that "what has happened here, is that the conventions of news photography have changed over time, and certainly from mid-20th century (in the West, at least), the idea of truth has become seen as part of the rhetoric of the news/...
Because of this unrelenting propaganda, the linkage of the Hamas attack of October 7 to the Holocaust was made immediately, even though it was logically bogus. It was understandable at first, especially from people – many of my friends and acquaintances among them – who personally exper...
are having their normal interfaces turn into propaganda and radicalization channels. That if they (we) just sit there and do nothing, they’ll (we’ll) start to see a different, scarier, world than they used to. That their growing fear / sense of being wronged will prime them for authori...
even considering the energy used to produce and harvest the hemp, actually sequesters carbon. The hempcrete block on the right looks a little rough, but here are someexamplesand a movie ofbuildingsmade with hempcrete. There is a shortage of workers who know how to build with hempcrete, and ...
–Ram Puniyani The propaganda machinery of the BJP is quite strong and the party’s parent organisation RSS further expands the reach of this machinery. The basic premise of the propaganda campaign of the RSS-BJP has always been to distort medieval history to demonise Muslims and glorify the ...
That prompted me to test out the site. Here are some examples of Japanese-to-English translation that I pulled: News articles I would say are unacceptably inaccurate: This one (about discussions over who should pay for the 2020 Olympics) gets a minister’s name and gender wrong, can’t se...
Inour courts of law, which are ponderous, and expensive, machines to mete out justice, the jury is commonly referred to as the “trier of fact”. The Propaganda Chorus would have you believe that we could dispense with all that time and expense by deploying a fact checker to announce the...