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The red couch experiments: Early lessons in pop-up fact-checking

One by one, people plopped onto the red couch and told us what they thought of live fact-checking. They watched video clips from two State of the Union addresses that we had specially modified. When t... read more

Shark Week Jumps The Shark: An Open Letter To Discovery Communications

I have to say, I had high hopes for this year’s Shark Week. But we’re only one special in and already, shark week has seriously jumped the shark. No whale with a giant bite taken out of it has ever wa... read more

Style Sheet: A Conversation with My Copyeditor

or someone beginning a scene sitting on a couch, then rising from a chair, or a character drinking a shot of whiskey but getting a refill on her red wine. Those are errors that usually result from the ... read more

Markets And Shopping Events: November 2014

Expect in-store demonstrations of experiments, robots, remote controlled gizmos, and gadgets galore. Beginning of November-31 December BRITISH RED CROSS ... is the venue for Jumble & Pearls (early) Ch... read more

The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland)

The red couch experiments: Early lessons in pop-up fact-checking “People have long mused about live fact-checking on television, but this marked the first in-depth study. It revealed our product could ... read more

David Bowie's 20 best music videos

Ever the futurist, Bowie, who died at 69 after a battle with cancer, embraced the opportunities of video early in his work ... It hits on a lot of the themes that pop up regularly in Bowie videos, lik... read more

Structural basis for the recognition of Sonic Hedgehog by human Patched1

After combining the good classes, 435,942 particles yielded a 3D reconstruction with overall resolution of 5.6 Å. After 3D classification against one good reference and four bad references, 137,823 pa... read more

Beyond the Fairs: Your Go-to Guide to Openings and Events During Frieze Week 2017

Address: 504 West 24th Street Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. For this show, Erica Mahinay takes on language and experiments with ... and many more in a two-ho... read more

On the Origin of Science Writers

Every now and then, I get an email from someone who’s keen to get into science writing and wants to know how I started. Whenever I reply, and I always try to, I’m always left with the nagging feeling ... read more

No Universe without Big Bang

As an alternative, the "no-boundary" and "tunneling" proposals assume that the tiny early universe arose by quantum tunnelling from nothing, and subsequently grew into the large universe that we see. ... read more

Abolish Drunk Driving Laws

Imagine a driver pulled over or stopped at a checkpoint after having "one for the road," knowing his house is a short drive away and the last drink won't kick in until he's sitting on his couch. At th... read more

Hardware Review: Nintendo Switch: Nintendo's Most Important Console Yet

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The dock itself feels like a lump of empty ... We imagine this is a software issue and will be remedied by an early update, never to be spoken of again. All in al... read more