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Check the facts FIRST! 3 y
SIFT four simple principles: to always consider. If you do not get the full story with all the correct facts; then you only have a piece of fiction based upon some desirable thoughts and words!
In 2016, Mr. Caulfield met Mr. Wineburg, who suggested modeling the process after the way professional fact-checkers assess information. Mr. Caulfield refined the practice into four simple principles:
1. Stop.
2. Investigate the source.
3. Find better coverage.
4. Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context.
Otherwise known as SIFT.
Without the whole truth you only have a tall tale! Yet everyone today seems to want and believe ” could be! - or Want a be!” ideas, but not the whole truth! This is called ” Fiction”.
While fiction has it’s place in some wri ... read more Black History - Haiti is the place! 3 y
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 Black actors inserted into a white storyline. Indeed, what looks like a step forward might actually be a step back, especially, if it encourages more Hamilton-Esque colorblind “inclusion.” ** Hollywood still refuses to show us: a luxurious nineteenth-century Black kingdom created by and for Black people.
Bridgerton’s Caribbean Problem
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels are mostly populated with white people like the Regency-era England where they take place. The London of Shonda Rhimes’s Bridgerton tv series for Netflix, in contrast, is a multicultural mecca, sprinkled with Black characters of various skin hues, as well as a smattering of east and south Asians walking around silently in the background. There is even a Black queen and a Black duke.
In the world of fiction—whether on the page, stage, or screen—such historicity does not necessarily have to be an issue. We should not ev ... read more Learn how to improve your overall health 3 y
If you’re looking for a simple yet very effective way of losing weight and improving your overall health, walking is something just for you.
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People who are physically active throughout their life are much less prone to this disease than those who have a more sedentary lifestyle. And that’s because they have more volume in their hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for verbal memory and learning.
A d ... read more What do U drink and why? 3 y
** Many people either neglect or just fail to drink enough to maintain proper levels of H2O water in their system.
In 2016, Galloway tested the hydrating potential of a range of drinks and found a litre of beer was no less hydrating than a litre of water. Similarly, a litre of instant coffee, containing 212mg of caffeine, was as hydrating as water. Milk was even more hydrating and effective as a hydration solution for people with diarrhoea. While not a green-light to binge on high-calorie drinks, it’s good to know that a cup of tea or half a lager still count as water intake.
So now you do not have that excuse!
How to Boost Your Health. Tea is the second most popular drink after water. Green t ... read more Vérité 3 y
Soyez gentil et honnête afin de pouvoir compter sur vos paroles! -Vérité Souvenez-vous que seule la vérité résistera à l'épreuve du temps
Quand apprendrons-nous jamais, la réponse est dans le vent!
Ce que le monde recherche, c’est la simple vérité et la logique pour nous montrer la bonne voie! Quand les gens utilisent ou reviennent à de faux faits, comment apprendras-tu toute la vérité?
Si vous ne pouvez pas dire la vérité, comment saurez-vous jamais la différence? visit the page Stop overthinking what you see online. 3 y
*** “Some of these students had never had somebody even talk to them about checking sources or looking for fake news, It was just uncritical acceptance if it fits with the narrative in their head or complete rejection if it didn’t.” never had somebody even talk to them about checking sources or looking for fake news,
For an academic, Michael Caulfield has an odd request:
** Stop overthinking what you see online.
Mr. Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at Washington State University Vancouver, knows all too well that at this very moment, more people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than at perhaps any other point in human history.
Misinformation rides the greased algorithmic rails of powerful social media platforms and travels at velocities and in volumes that make it nearly impossible to stop.
That alone makes information warfare an unfair fight for the average internet user. B ... read more The brazen fraud 3 y
Orange County prosecutors say Nguyen Social Services was charging up to $700 a pop to file false unemployment claims for people who did not qualify to receive Covid-19 relief money.
*** Read the whole article! How billions in pandemic aid was swindled by con artists and crime syndicates
Feb. 13, 2021, 6:00 AM EST / Updated Feb. 13, 2021, 2:16 PM EST
By Kit Ramgopal, Andrew Blankstein and Tom Winter
When investigators raided a strip mall store in Garden Grove, California, in December, they found a line of customers snaking around the parking lot and huge stacks of cash inside the store.
Orange County prosecutors say Nguyen Social Services was charging up to $700 a pop to file false unemployment claims for people who did not qualify to receive Covid-19 relief money.
The brazen fraud was part of an overall scheme that cost taxpayers an estimated $11 million, prosec ... read more One-Pot Creamy Chicken and Rice Casserole 3 y
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This post originally appeared on The Kitchn and was published on February 3, 2020. This article is republished here with permission.
Pocket worthy stories to fuel your mind.
Recipe: One-Pot Creamy Chicken and Rice Casserole
This no-fuss stovetop recipe is good for any night of the week.
The Kitchen
Christine Gallary
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If you’re looking for a comforting one-pot meal that will please the whole family, look no further than this creamy chicken and rice stovetop casserole. Tender chicken, onions, and sweet peas cook together with long-grain rice in a creamy cheddar and thyme-scented sauce for a fast and hearty weeknight di ... read more Help kids to develop and gain a critical skill 3 y
How to teach young minds: And it gets you out of the hot seat, too. I hate to break it to you, but there will come a time when your children’s knowledge of certain topics will exceed your own. That’s okay. As long as you’ve taught them how to think through the possibilities and figure out the steps to finding the answer, you will no longer need to serve as a fact-dispensing robot.
Stop Answering Your Kid’s Questions
It’ll help them gain a critical skill—and get you out of the hot seat.
Lifehacker
Michelle Woo
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Before you can tell them that you got a C- in geography or that you once thought the word XING on the road was pronounced “Zing,” your children will see you as a perfect human knowledge-dispensing machine. And they will ask you a lot of questions.
Why can’t I eat gummy worms for breakfast?
Why are planets round?
Why does your face look like that?
And you will do your best to answer them.
Becau ... read more Critical Thinking isn't Just a Process 3 y
Critical thinking is not just formulas to be taught but knowledge and experience to be acquired and tested and re-examined, along with habits and skills that can be demonstrated and practiced. But there is no separating the “process” from the “substance”.
It may be a privilege to live in a society that does not always need official statements to be interrogated as such.But if the past few years have shown anything, that privilege is not something to be taken for granted.
From: insight magizine
Critical Thinking isn’t Just a Process
Authoritarian muscle memory and the twists and turns of lying
zeynep
Feb 13
After my last post expanding on some of the ways to best evaluate information and ways of knowing, people asked for more such discussions.
So let’s talk more about metaepistemology.
One of the things I noticed throughout the past year has been that a lot of my friends who had grown up in authoritarian or poor countries had a much easier time adjusting to our new pandemic reality. My childhood was intermittently full of ... read more It’s been a tough week for our country - WHY? 3 y
Violence has no place in our American political system - COVID didn’t crush the economy. The government crushed the economy.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Where is our view and what is our duty?
Here is what the nation really needs to change and moving toward a better future! :
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Failed America, And Here’s How It Needs To Change Now:
The task before us is to continue to be the one nation in history where any person, regardless of their standing at birth, can make anything of themselves.
Kristi Noem
By Kristi Noem
JANUARY 8, 2021
It’s been a tough week for our country. Violence has no place in our American political system, and we’re all in agreement that the events that playe ... read more What is our purpose in life? - 2 3 y
Thank God we are more than just flesh!
Many of us are very lazy and idle in our life! We will take the easy way and just skip thru the requirements in life. Idleness makes for a dull personal existence. This is where we often go astray and resort to either crime, and often sinful activities. It is just human nature {the weakness of will power}- yet there is a much better way given us - The Holy Scriptures.
This is where we will lose many readers - but just remember that all things in your life were based upon having a free knowledge base and Will to do whatever you want.
It is sad that so many allow the circumstances to d ... read more What is our purpose in life? - 1 3 y
** Each of us has the task to be a good neighbor - share, care, and aid as needed!
The world has made many demands upon each of us - Most is putting burden and other demands on us!
This is how most groups {fanilies, tribes, racial plus most religious groups, including governments have been throughout history! So what is the best way to understand and use our talents in life?
While most of the groups seem to be operating from how or what they can get from us - in place of allowing the freedom to operate and decide how and when to help others. Thus this has led to the controlling history we have known or seen.
Why?
Simply because people left to their own ways ... read more What people should be doing! 3 y
** If you do not get your life together and just follow fads and foolish popular movements - it tends to put you at the mercy and direction of the lost or corrupt lawless elements. Take time to increase your memory and learn how to make bter use of your time!
** Learn how to memorize and your life will improve!
When trying to memorize new material, it’s easy to assume that the more work you put in, the better you will perform. Yet taking the occasional down time – to do literally nothing – may be exactly what you need. Just dim the lights, sit back, and enjoy 10-15 minutes of quiet contemplation, and you’ll find that your memory of the facts you have just learnt is far better than if you had attempted to use that moment more productively.
Although it’s already well known that we should pace our studies, new research suggests that we shoul ... read more Design of Earth’s Climate
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** If you do not think, or understand this - then just maybe I am one of the smartest guys in the room! Understanding requires an excellent knowledge base from which to be able to make serious and correct decisions! Such as to What Garnet Compositions Reveal
Answers in Depth 2010 Volume 5
Design of Earth’s Climate
The question of global warming and climate change is fundamentally about God’s design of the earth. There has indeed been warming of the earth’s climate, though the amount of warming is still debated. But the key questions are:
(1) could mankind be to blame? (2) could any actions taken by mankind really make a difference? and then
(3) will climate change resolve itself without mankind’s help?
First of all, advocates of global warming being a serious problem treat carbon dioxide as if it were a pollutant, but it really isn’t. Carbon dioxide is a natural ... read more The Freedom to fail 3 y
Well we know this is not a rock, just what is that funny-looking orange stuff?? Could this be an attempt to get you to think?? What is it about life that requires us to actually think??
Maybe it is something in the air?? HUH!! Whatever it is, if we do not reason and think in life it will be short and controlled {dominated}by others.
I don’t believe that they just want to do your laundry either... If this went over your head, then maybe we need to talk. The lack of actual thinking and coming to a satisfactory solution is beyond many in the world today.
Some questions in life are not meant to be answered here on earth. HUH!! But then there are many things that we must learn to find answers for or parish. It’s a sad state of affairs, but someone will do it. ... read more Getting results in life! ** Part 3 ** Eliminate Stress 3 y
Use material from AnswersInGenesis.org, one of the best online sources of "the other side of the story". Their writers are almost all PhDs (yes, from the same universities as evolutionists), well-versed in the tactics and logic of the establishment. Many of them were evolutionists for part of their careers as scientists; many hold scientific patents; and NONE of them are true churchgoers!
Here is the rest of the story!
Blog: Uncommon Wisdom!!
by kerminator
How to Start Thinking Better
Blog: Uncommon Wisdom!!
by kerminator
How to Start Thinking Better
If you don’t write regularly, the quality of your thinking suffers.
** This is part of an article that was originally published on December 14, 2018, by Scott Young, and is republished here with permission. If you don’t write regularly, the quality of your thinking suffers.
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