- Dec 2023
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endanger US democracy and global press freedom
the press has already destroyed "democracy dies in darkness."
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- Nov 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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This myth is mostly the blame of the novelist Washington Irving
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for: Washington Irving, book - the History of New York, book - A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
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- Irving was a American writer who wrote fiction for the intent of stoking nationalism. He bent the truth in many ways.
- Among his most famous and impactful historical lies that Irving fabricated in his book on Columbus was that prior to Columbus, the majority of educated people thought the earth was flat. In fact, most educated people believed the earth to be round during the time of Columbus.
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interesting fact: knickerbocker
- The term knickerbocker originated in the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker that Irving chose for his book "A History of New York"
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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for: Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhood - example - Langley Washington
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- Pocket neighborhood pioneer introduces an example of a pocket neighborhood
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- Oct 2023
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dhayton.haverford.edu dhayton.haverford.edu
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Hayton, Darin. “Washington Irving’s Columbus and the Flat Earth.” History of Science blog. Darin Hayton, December 2, 2014. https://dhayton.haverford.edu/blog/2014/12/02/washington-irvings-columbus-and-the-flat-earth/.
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The seeds of the Columbus myth seem to grow from Washington Irving’s biography of Columbus, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828) (online here). Alexander Everett, Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, had invited Irving to Madrid in the hopes that Irving would translate a recently published collection of documents on Columbus.
Source of the Columbus/Flat Earth portion of the bunk theory.
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- Aug 2023
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hackernoon.com hackernoon.com
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In our early experiments, reported by The Washington Post in March 2013, we discovered that Google’s search engine had the power to shift the percentage of undecided voters supporting a political candidate by a substantial margin without anyone knowing.
- for: search engine manipulation effect, SEME, voting, voting - bias, voting - manipulation, voting - search engine bias, democracy - search engine bias, quote, quote - Robert Epstein, quote - search engine bias, stats, stats - tilting elections
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- In our early experiments, reported by The Washington Post in March 2013,
- we discovered that Google’s search engine had the power to shift the percentage of undecided voters supporting a political candidate by a substantial margin without anyone knowing.
- 2015 PNAS research on SEME
- http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.full.pdf?with-ds=yes&ref=hackernoon.com
- stats begin
- search results favoring one candidate
- could easily shift the opinions and voting preferences of real voters in real elections by up to 80 percent in some demographic groups
- with virtually no one knowing they had been manipulated.
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- Worse still, the few people who had noticed that we were showing them biased search results
- generally shifted even farther in the direction of the bias,
- so being able to spot favoritism in search results is no protection against it.
- stats begin
- Google’s search engine
- with or without any deliberate planning by Google employees
- was currently determining the outcomes of upwards of 25 percent of the world’s national elections.
- This is because Google’s search engine lacks an equal-time rule,
- so it virtually always favors one candidate over another, and that in turn shifts the preferences of undecided voters.
- Because many elections are very close, shifting the preferences of undecided voters can easily tip the outcome.
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- Jul 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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soundcloud.com soundcloud.com
- Dec 2022
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undisputedrecords.bandcamp.com undisputedrecords.bandcamp.com
- Nov 2022
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library.harvard.edu library.harvard.edu
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https://library.harvard.edu/collections/reading-harvard-views-readers-readership-and-reading-history
Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History<br /> Exploring the intellectual, cultural, and political history of reading as reflected in the historical holdings of the Harvard's libraries.
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- Sep 2022
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Mark Robert Rank
https://sociology.wustl.edu/people/mark-rank
Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare Washington University in Saint Louis,
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- Jul 2022
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Like other informed people of his time, Columbus knew that theworld was round.
Were there uninformed people of his time who didn't think the world was round?
The myth about the flat world was primarily an invention of Washington Irving. Good to see him tangentially deflating this myth here.
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- Jun 2022
- May 2022
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blog.mozilla.org blog.mozilla.org
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- May 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Black in D.C. have 8 in 10 coronavirus infections—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved May 29, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-coronavirus-blacks-vaccine/2021/05/25/1b6208da-bd6d-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html
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founders.archives.gov founders.archives.gov
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I allow nothing for losses by death, but on the contrary shall presently take credit 4. pr. cent pr. annum for their increase over & above keepg. up their own numbers.
Perhaps one of the most telling annotations in history: Where Jefferson annotates his own 1792 letter to Washington to herald the profit in breeding enslaved people.
You can also see an image of the actual letter on page 4/5: Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, Notes. -06-18, 1792. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib006309/.
Hat tip to Stuart Pace and Henry Wiencek's Smithsonian article, "The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson".
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- Apr 2021
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githooks.com githooks.com
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Figure out which project(s) to use at the Bank.
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- Jan 2021
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github.com github.com
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Jim and I ran head-on into this one today.
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- Sep 2020
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www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
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I can understand DuBois grievances with Booker T. Washington. Washington speaks about how African American men needed to essentially focus on and make the best of manual labor jobs. He seemed to want the focus to be shifted from insisting on rights to establishing personal and familial wealth through quiet hard work. DuBois seemed to characterize this as submissive in nature. He advocated for more insistence on civil rights. He doesn't directly blame Washington for how the black community had integrated into society post slavery, but he does believe his teachings contributed.
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- Aug 2020
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jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com
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Yang, B. Y., Barnard, L. M., Emert, J. M., Drucker, C., Schwarcz, L., Counts, C. R., Murphy, D. L., Guan, S., Kume, K., Rodriquez, K., Jacinto, T., May, S., Sayre, M. R., & Rea, T. (2020). Clinical Characteristics of Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Receiving Emergency Medical Services in King County, Washington. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2014549–e2014549. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.14549
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certificates.creativecommons.org certificates.creativecommons.org
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More information about CC and open licensing
Add: "Creative Commons: A Basic Presentation" by Catherine Zoerb, 2017, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. This presentation allows one easy to understand the basics of, and application of Creative Commons, without legal jargon, allowing for good introduction in overview format.
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- May 2020
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www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
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Hamner L, Dubbel P, Capron I, et al. High SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate Following Exposure at a Choir Practice — Skagit County, Washington, March 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020;69:606–610. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6919e6external icon
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www.nejm.org www.nejm.org
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Chu, H. Y., Englund, J. A., Starita, L. M., Famulare, M., Brandstetter, E., Nickerson, D. A., Rieder, M. J., Adler, A., Lacombe, K., Kim, A. E., Graham, C., Logue, J., Wolf, C. R., Heimonen, J., McCulloch, D. J., Han, P. D., Sibley, T. R., Lee, J., Ilcisin, M., … Bedford, T. (2020). Early Detection of Covid-19 through a Citywide Pandemic Surveillance Platform. New England Journal of Medicine, NEJMc2008646. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2008646
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- Jul 2018
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www.openwa.org www.openwa.org
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OER and copyright course
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- Jul 2017
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www.vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com
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Haberman is in Trump’s head so deep she could be his psychiatrist, and she has had extraordinary access to the president and the administration. She is a regular commentator on TV about life “inside the castle.”
This is absolutely incredible and profound. As an old school wannabee journalist, I applaud these efforts. If only the Charlotte Observer would lower their prices to about $5 a month for digital, I would subscribe, even on my income.
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- May 2017
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Washington Legal Foundation
This may be a front group. Investigate, find additional sources, and leave research notes in the comments.
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www.leagle.com www.leagle.com
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Washington Legal Foundation
This may be a front group. Investigate, find additional sources, and leave research notes in the comments.
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Washington Legal Foundation
This may be a front group. Investigate, find additional sources, and leave research notes in the comments.
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Washington Legal Foundation
This may be a front group. Investigate, find additional sources, and leave research notes in the comments.
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- Feb 2017
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digitallearning.k12.wa.us digitallearning.k12.wa.us
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Helpful resources for using OER
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- Apr 2016
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marketmonetarist.com marketmonetarist.com
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The paper with the ambitious title Optimal Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound Bullard has co-authored with Costas Azariadis, Aarti Singh and Jacek Suda.
Author affiliations:
- Costas Azariadis, Professor of Economics, Washington University in St.Louis
- James Bullard President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Aarti Singh Jacek Suda
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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“Washington Crossing the Delaware.”
Here are a few extra interesting facts about the day of Washington crossing the Delaware.
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- Jul 2015
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news.wustl.edu news.wustl.edu
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Bullard's co-authors are Costas Azariadis of Washington University and the St. Louis Fed, Aarti Singh of the University of Sydney and Jacek Suda of the Narodowy Bank Polski.
Author affiliations:
- Costas Azariadis, Professor of Economics, Washington University in St.Louis
- James Bullard President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Aarti Singh Jacek Suda
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www.stlouisfed.org www.stlouisfed.org
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Author affiliations:
- Costas Azariadis, Professor of Economics, Washington University in St.Louis
- James Bullard President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Aarti Singh Jacek Suda
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