Information Literacy

Information Literacy

A laptop made of a rough, brown, stone-like material with green squiggly lines emerging from its screen, set against a black background.
AI is not a rupture in history, but a continuation of intelligence emerging where information becomes systematically arranged.
A medieval scribe sits at a desk, writing in a manuscript with quill and ink, surrounded by open books and a basket holding writing supplies.
"What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing."
In the store aisle brimming with products, a person examines the label of a purple bottle, curious about the latest scienceploitation claims that promise groundbreaking benefits.
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
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It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
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How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
John Templeton Foundation
It may be the only way to save the USA — and the world — from alternative facts. “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” –Ernest Rutherford There […]