Leave it to Science: Should We Be Optimistic?
- Tablet Edition | Altered Realities
- August 1, 2012
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5 Augmented Reality Apps That Make You Feel Like a Superhero0
- Crime and Behavior, Design & Technology, Tablet Edition | Altered Realities
- August 1, 2012
Fighting Crime | Every Superhero Out There To many people, augmented reality (AR) is still a science fiction-like concept; Something they´ve seen in the movies. Objects can be conjured out of thin air, while overlapping and interacting with the reality that is recognized by a portable device’s camera or GPS-system. Google’s wearable augmented reality glasses
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Leave it to Science: Should We Be Optimistic?1
- Tablet Edition | Altered Realities
- August 1, 2012
If ignorance is bliss, then optimism must be euphoria. Thanks to a mechanism called the optimism bias, humans are pretty much incapable of applying basic risk statistics to their own lives. We know smoking causes cancer, but we don’t expect it to happen to us. We find a lump on our body and we tell
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Editor’s Note | The Other Wikipedia0
- Tablet Edition | Altered Realities
- August 1, 2012
I’m not ashamed to say it: I love Wikipedia. I use it all the time. Whether I need to lookup random facts (Who died today, one hundred years ago?) or translate devious Dutch medical terms into English: Wikipedia is my go-to website. Sure, I know about its limits – “It can be altered by basically
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When the Truth is No Longer Relevant: Evangelic Pseudo Historian David Barton and His Jefferson Lies0
- Tablet Edition | Altered Realities
- August 1, 2012
Earlier this year David Barton, a self proclaimed historian and Christian reconstructionist who is considered responsible for the miseducation of millions of Americans about their country’s history, published his latest book titled “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson.” Three months after its publication, on the 16th of July, the
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