So by that logic, you could say everything in the Daily Mail is a factoid. The word itself is a combination of the word “fact” and the ending “oid,” meaning “similar but not the same.” The reason a “factoid” is often seen to be a trivial but interesting fact rather than a...
Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that Ifeelit to be true, but thatIfeel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. — Stephen Colbert, quoted inThe A. V. Club,...
Dunbar’s number was created by a British anthropologist to define how many friends an individual can reasonably have. This article examines the idea of friendship, the science behind it and the number of real friends people can have in the age of social
To be supposed to is a common phrase that functions the same way a modal verb does. Modal verbs, also called auxiliary or helping verbs, add meaning to the main verb in a sentence by expressing possibility, ability, permission, or obligation. Supposed to, like have to, can fall into the...
Plumbing knowledge, for example, is constantly tested by whether the place floods after you’ve advanced your theory about what pipe connects to what. You need to get it right because it costs you something when you get it wrong. The mechanic has seen a thousand check-engine lights and know...
Factoid questions—Simple who, what, when, or where questions, such as Where is the nearest service center to Seattle? Factoid questions have fact-based answers that can be returned as a single word or phrase. The answer is retrieved from a FAQ or from your indexed documents....
Because this is a tough process with a lot of waiting and uncertainty. Some days I feel excited daydreaming about it and others I feel like I want to back out of the whole thing (reading all the candidate guide stuff the past 2 weeks has been more the latter scary feeling). But ...
Perhaps most annoying for most people is the fact that playback is limited to only shuffle — meaning you can’t select any song you want to play — and songs are not available in the lossless HD or Ultra HD formats. All you need is a standard Amazon account, and you don’t even ne...
“is Trump Russia’s Useful Idiot, or Has He Been Irreparably Compromised? That’s the question that needs answering. Everything else is a distraction”(TIP:There is a high degree of certainty Russia interfered with U.S. elections according to the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies, ...
Questions that probe for deeper meaning and set the stage for further questioning, ones that foster the development of critical thinking skills and higher order capabilities such as problem-solving and understanding complex systems.” In essence it is noted that“a good essential question is the pri...