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  • Module 1: A Very Brief History of Information
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  • Module 3: Politics and the Legal Landscape of Information
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Tracing the origins of the anti-vaccine movement

by LIS101 | Mar 19, 2019 | video content | 0 comments

Feb 2, 2015 7:50 PM EDT A measles outbreak has reached 14 states and infected more than 100 people. The disease had been considered eradicated in the U.S., but parents’ skepticism about the safety and usefulness of vaccines in recent years has made room for measles to...

Blue Feed, Red Feed: See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side

by LIS101 | May 18, 2016 | Blogs | 0 comments

John Keegan writes: Recent posts from sources where the majority of shared articles aligned “very liberal” (blue, on the left) and “very conservative” (red, on the right) in a large Facebook study. In 2015, the journal Science published a research paper by Facebook...

The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

by LIS101 | May 17, 2016 | Blogs | 0 comments

George Dvorsky writes: The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math...

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