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More about dreaming
After I published my previous little thing about dreaming, I opened an e-mail from Harper’s, about what’s coming up in the next issue. Here’s one thing: Why do we dream? Despite some intriguing speculation, scientists have yet to come up … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Dormio, dream incubation, dream research, Harper's Magazine, Michael W Cline, MIT
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Can we get the facts of life from social media?
Short answer: no. What follows is one entire chapter from my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life, the title of which is duplicated above. (A very short chapter.) There’s a reason why I’m posting it here today. I … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Komprosplat, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged 538.com, bots, bots on Twitter, Carnegie Mellon, Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity, COVID, Kar Swisher, MIT, MIT Technology Review, New Knowledge, Reddit, Renee DiResta, Russian troll farms, Trump, Twitter
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