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Tag Archives: eclipse

Trump Briefly Glanced at Eclipse without Protective Glasses

Donald Trump’s persona as a man who doesn’t like to be told what to do feeds into the spread of this image of him staring directly at the eclipse without protective glasses. I’ve seen it portrayed as if an aide warned Trump not to do it, and then he immediately did it anyway, on impulse.…

21 Aug 2017 in Current_Events, Ethics, Journalism, Media, PopCult, Rhetoric, Science.

NASA: No, The Eclipse Won’t Blind Pets

I once heard a fellow grad student say Galileo went blind because the the Church tortured him, I said no, he went blind because he looked at the sun through a telescope. Turns out both stories are myths. Galileo did go partially blind from cataract and glaucoma in his 70s. “Galileo was well aware of…

19 Aug 2017 in Current_Events, Ethics, History, PopCult, Science.

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Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose whether to be the passengers or pilots of our lives.
Fake Graph: The Actual "Dunning-Kruger Effect" Is NOTHING Like I Thought It Was
MLA Format Papers: Step-by-step Tips for Formatting Research Essays in MLA Style
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
Stop sharing those unsourced memes about "be woke" and "God doesn't need soldiers" -- here's what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
Quotations: Using them Effectively in Journalism
Toulmin Argument
The Falling Man -- 9/11 Suicide Photograph
Short Story Tips: 10 Hacks to Improve Your Creative Writing
Email Tips: Top 10 Strategies for Writing Effective Email

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