This Element explores misinformation as a challenge for democracies, using experiments from Germany, Italy, and the UK to assess the role of user-generated corrections on social media. A sample of more than 170,000 observations across a wide range of topics (COVID, climate change, 5G etc.) is used to test whether social corrections help reduce the perceived accuracy of false news and whether miscorrections decrease the credibility of true news. Corrections reduce the perceived accuracy of ...

Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was time the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From Franklin's idea emerged the American Philosophical Society, an association hosted in Philadelphia and dedicated to the harness...

The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of gender worldwide. They do so in terms of the theories, methods, and ways of teaching and learnin...

A man walks into a cult . . .Zero ProofA Culty Detective Noir NovelWhen the lives of a soberish investigator, a viral false prophet, and two watchful siblings collide, the fallout is a darkly comic journey through deception, belief, and the fight to reclaim a stolen life.Trucker Holmes was devoted to discovering the truth. It was his job, and he was good at it. But when a faithful mother handed him ten grand to find her impressionable pop-culture-lo...

Det är dags att möta bisticeratops! Denna hornförsedda dinosaurie levde för över 70 miljoner år sedan och upptäcktes i Arizonas öken. Med sin stora, färggranna nacksköld, två långa horn och skrovliga hud skyddade den sig mot rovdjur.Dinosaurier levde för miljoner år sedan, men fossilerna de har lämnat efter sig berättar för oss hur deras värld såg ut. Och nya arter upptäcks hela tiden! Här får vi ta del av några av vetenskapens mest fascinerande fynd.Detta är en faktabok so...

De flesta har säkert hört talas om tyrannosaurus rex – men nu är det dags att möta meraxes! Denna farliga dinosaurie upptäcktes i Argentinas öken. Med sitt enorma huvud, mun fylld av sylvassa tänder, starka ben och vassa klor var den en skräckinjagande jägare.Dinosaurier levde för miljoner år sedan, men fossilerna de har lämnat efter sig berättar för oss hur deras värld såg ut. Och nya arter upptäcks hela tiden! Här får vi ta del av några av vetenskapens mest fascinerande fynd....

Learn the other side of the Hanukkah story, A Chariot of Fire follows the Bene Israel community, as they flee Israel to find a new home in India.Two thousand years ago, a ship sailed east, alone on an endless sea. The people onboard were fleeing the same war that the Maccabees fought in the ancient land of Israel. They took with them their faith and their traditions, knowing they would sail for more than a year.When a great storm crushed their boat...

Two thousand years ago, a ship sailed east, alone on an endless sea. The people onboard were fleeing the same war that the Maccabees fought in the ancient land of Israel. They took with them their faith and their traditions, knowing they would sail for more than a year.When a great storm crushed their boat on the shores of India, only a few survived.Some say the prophet Elijah plucked them from the sea.But they were welcomed by the people of the new land.The...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the talented but obscure author Benjamin Rosenblatt.

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more mod