Infographic: Beyond Fake News – 10 Types of Misleading News – Sixteen Languages | EAVI The work needed to effectively filter information in our media-saturated environment takes time and skill. A study showed that the more content we consume, the more our ability to make decisions about its veracity becomes impaired. With 80% of Europeans now regularly going online, it is vital for the sustainable and effective functioning of democracy for citizens to be able to curate their media diets with a healthy critical eye. Our Beyond Fake News infographic identifies the 10 types of potentially misleading news. It was created to be used in class with real-world examples to spark classroom debate and reflection on the ways that media is constructed. We hesitated to put the term ‘fake news’ in the title of the infographic as, ironically, the term itself is a misleading simplification. Below this article, you will find a pdf version of the infographic as well as a dropdown list containing some resources for teaching the 10 Types of Misleading News. The 10 types The motivations
Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex Citation: Pasley BN, David SV, Mesgarani N, Flinker A, Shamma SA, Crone NE, et al. (2012) Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. PLoS Biol 10(1): e1001251. Academic Editor: Robert Zatorre, McGill University, Canada Received: June 24, 2011; Accepted: December 13, 2011; Published: January 31, 2012 Copyright: © 2012 Pasley et al. Funding: This research was supported by NS21135 (RTK), PO4813 (RTK), NS40596 (NEC), and K99NS065120 (EFC). Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Abbreviations: A1, primary auditory cortex; STG, superior temporal gyrus; STRF, spectro-temporal receptive field Results Words and sentences from different English speakers were presented aurally to 15 patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures for epilepsy or brain tumor. Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5.
How to overhaul peer review and scientific publishing Many are quick to criticize the peer review process, but are there any viable alternatives? Anyone who doubts the inefficiencies and flaws of the current peer-review system would do well to read a review article published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (Dec 2011) and evaluated for F1000 by Gary Aston-Jones and David Moorman. The article, entitled “Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal” by Dwight Kravitz and Chris Baker of the National Institute of Mental Health at the US NIH, highlights several serious problems with the scientific publishing machine. Most for-profit publishers argue that the review process chaperoned by their editors ensures high standards of scientific research. How do the authors propose fixing the system? The new publishing process that Kravitz and Baker propose “does not completely demolish the existing system, but streamlines it and optimizes it to leverage the currently available technology.”
Three-quarters of climate change is man-made Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modellers in a paper published online today. Most of the observed warming — at least 74 % — is almost certainly due to human activity, they write in Nature Geoscience1. Since 1950, the average global surface air temperature has increased by more than 0.5 °C. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have contributed around 0.85 °C to global warming since the 1950s, Swiss researchers have found. Their findings, which are strikingly similar to results produced by other attribution methods, provide an alternative line of evidence that greenhouse gases, and in particular carbon dioxide, are by far the main culprit of recent global warming. Knutti and his co-author Markus Huber, also at ETH Zurich, took a different approach.
1,000,000,000th Of A Second | Yellow Swordfish These photos have been around a long time but I have to thank my son for pointing them out to me. They were taken by the legendary Harold Edgerton in the Nevada desert at a range of 7 miles at 1/1,000,000,000th of a second, at night. These 3 pictures show the first 3 milliseconds of an atomic bomb detonation. Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast. In a millisecond the blast expands; lightning caused by the force of the energy travels down the guide wires The desert floor was turned to glass. In another millionth of a second, a planet of fire exists, silhouetting and dwarfing the Joshua Trees. You can find out a little more about these stunning pictures here.
COVID-19 : dépister la désinformation Ce n’est pas tout le monde qui rapporte les conclusions d’une étude avec rigueur. Voici les questions à vous poser avant de tirer des conclusions. Les auteurs sont-ils cités ? Les expressions «Selon une étude» ou «Selon des experts» sont trop vagues. ll est crucial de savoir qui a publié l'étude, dans quelle revue scientifique et quand. A-t-elle été révisée ? L’évaluation par les pairs (en anglais, peer review) est un gage de crédibilité. Si on ne vous fournit pas ces éléments, méfiez-vous et ne sautez pas aux conclusions! Avant de partager, vérifiez si ces résultats ont été mieux rapportés ailleurs par d’autres.
Self-guided bullet could hit laser-marked targets from a mile away A group of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a prototype of a small-caliber bullet capable of steering itself towards a laser-marked target located approximately 2,000 meters (1.2 miles) away. The dart-like design has passed the initial testing stage, which included computer simulations as well as field-testing prototypes built from commercially available parts. The four-inch (10 cm) long projectile is to be used with smoothbore arms, meaning ones with non-rifled barrels. Rifling involves cutting helical grooves in the barrel to give the bullet a spin that, thanks to the gyroscopic effect, improves its aerodynamic stability and accuracy. While positioning the center of gravity towards the front of the projectile aids the stability, the task of directing the bullet to its target is handled mainly by the little fins. Any projectile's flight dynamics depends on its mass and size. The video below shows the bullet in flight.
Scientists, Fight For Access! | EvoEcoLab Ask many scientists what they believe separates the pursuit of scientific inquiry from most everything else and you’ll get a wide range of open-ended, flowery, idealistic, and nearly altruistic, statements like ”unlock the mysteries of the world”, “the thrill of discovery”, “making a meaningful contribution to society”, or “improving people’s lives”. No matter how you cut it, scientists tend to agree that science is an important framework for systematically establishing the validity of claims by relying on evidence. Scientists’ idealism is honorable, and genuinely heartfelt. Few other groups of people really do want the change the world in such a positive, progressive manner. Sadly, what is occurring is not illegal, but to the average person it might sound like a fine line between fee-for-service and embezzlement of taxpayer money. Herein lies the paradox. As with any legislation, language is always very important. There is one thing that we all need to do, though.