Tag: USA
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Tipping Point within a Tipping Point within a Tipping Point
Right now in 2020, there are three epidemics co-existing in the United States. In the poignant non-fiction The Tipping Point written by Malcom Gladwell, you can understand how epidemics ignite through “Tipping Points”: The point at which a series of small changes become significant enough to cause a larger, more important change. The first was […]
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Columnist Carl Zimmer Discusses How Fake News Hurts Scientists
Originally in The Statesmen On Thursday, Oct. 12, Carl Zimmer, The New York Times speaker and columnist, spoke to a packed crowdat Stony Brook University’s Charles B. Wang Center about the consequences of fake news. He discussed the power of fake news in affecting the credibility of the science community — especially in regard to climate change. […]