The front page of the internet: Reddit. A place for community, conversation, and links. Within in this internet hub there are subhubs called…
Edward Snowden’s journey from US military worker to global refugee seeking asylum and finally now to social pariah in some people’s eyes or hero to others is documented exceptionally well in the movie “Citizenfour.” Other documentaries usually take a narrative approach, with mostly third party…
People who have an interest in learning are not confined to have to pay thousands of dollars a year to access scholarly journals and similar subscription-based articles. Instead, they can turn to websites such as reddit even that have a conversation based side to them that actually…
Zhihu is a Chinese question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by the community of its users. In Classical Chinese, “Zhihu” means “Do you know?”. Chinese-language internet users nowadays increasingly resort to Zhihu for expert knowledge and…
You can’t believe everything you hear. Scientific studies are constantly being reported, bringing incredible claims with…
Science has long been a field that lacked oversight and has always been deemed empirical fact by the public eye. However…
Although scientific studies are a useful resource, they cannot always be taken as fact. In today’s society many people obtain…
There are multiple reasons why results from some scientific studies are less reliable than…
According to Clifford, in his article 10 Reasons Studies can be Surprisingly Inaccurate, the results of a scientific study may not always be reliable due to negative findings not being published. Negative results need to be published so that when scientists analyze all the…
