scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow
Space US silver dollar coin design commemorating astronaut/schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe David Pescovitz
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facebook Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers Thom Dunn
Space Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab David Pescovitz
coronavirus New York Times' 3-D simulation shows the importance of social distancing Mark Frauenfelder
trump Russia's health disinformation campaign against U.S. has been going on for 10+ years — NYT Xeni Jardin
disasters Sci-fi author Ted Chiang on the disaster novel we're currently living through Gareth Branwyn
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tabloids A beheaded tot, isolated stars, and cure coronavirus with herbs, in last week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn
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