"A January 6 can and will happen again, because the architects are still able to do their thing unimpeded," Andy Campbell says. By telling the Proud Boys to “stand by” during one of the 2020 presidential debates, Donald Trump brought the street gang to a new...
This lesson describes why Successful Communities are “Learning Communities.” And describes why a commitment to continuous improvement, the development of collective responsibility, and focusing on goal alignment are so important in building a successful learning community.
When one looks at the downward trend of Cable TV, it looks like a great example of “creative destruction.” This media evolution is a great deal for consumers and content creators alike. For more than a quarter-century, we’ve been hearing predictions about the demise...
List of bad things Conservatives say about Trump.
Most of Trump’s attack on DeSantis sounded very…Democratic. Accusing Republicans of wanting to cut, or completely eliminate, Medicare and Social Security? That could have come from the Democratic attack machine any time in the last 50 years. In fact, Trump’s attack resembled, in spirit at least, President Joe Biden’s taunting of Republicans at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7, when he accused the GOP of seeking to kill Medicare and Social Security
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility.
Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” the idea is to break down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassemble them from the ground up. It’s one of the best ways to learn to think for yourself, unlock your creative potential, and move from linear to non-linear results.
The presentation of the TIDAL Approach to Decision Making. The TIDAL approach is designed to mitigate the perceptual limitations caused by the way our brain works. Selective perception, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and cultural/linguistic biases are real things that affect our decision-making.
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
This lesson on the History of Health Misinformation provides evidence that Health Misinformation has been with us from our beginning.
This lesson provides Evidence of Trump’s Christian Support. It’s a facegroup that makes it clear that it supports Trump, almost like Jesus himself.
This lesson offers the Critical Thinking Advice in the Bible as a way to help bridge the gap between Scriptures and Logic.
This lesson details the 5 Media Literacy Questions we need to ask every time we consume information to ensure the most learn from it.
The Trump administration reportedly has obtained search warrants that would allow them access to the Facebook pages of thousands of anti-Trump protesters. The requested data — which targets all the information in three accounts — would include information on about...
This lesson on Using Media Literacy to Understand a Fox News Story about the Obama’s will help us better perceive information from Fox News.
How to Make Better Decisions Better Decisions come better information, and better information comes from better communication. Ultimately all decisions are information dependent. https://www.youtube.com/embed/GiPe1OiKQuk Some of your decisions will be so routine that...
While his genius may be largely uncontested, Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of Facebook is badly adrift from reality. He paints the social media behemoth he founded in 2004 as a tool “to bring the world closer together,” but in many ways, it has become an indispensable...
On the topic of Kellyanne Conway’s reaction to CNN’s question about her husband’s anti-Trump tweets, Michael Tomasky calls her a “conservative snowflake”: [C]ome on. It was a totally reasonable and legitimate question, as Bash told my colleague Matt Wilstein Monday ....
The Misinformation Effect and False Memories The misinformation effect refers to the tendency for post-event information to interfere with the memory of the original event. Researchers have shown that the introduction of even relatively subtle information following an...
Conservative's Defense of Amy Coney Barrett's Religion The post below provides evidence of selective perception. Specifically, the evidence of Selective Perception is the Conservative's defense of Amy Coney Barrett's religion. GOP Defends Amy Coney Barrett’s...
[pdf-embedder url="https://atlantisschoolofcommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HarpersMagazine-The-Origins-of-Speech.pdf" title="HarpersMagazine-The Origins of Speech"] The Origins of Speech In the beginning, was Chomsky by Tom Wolfe Nobody in academia had...
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Fake news isn’t suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016...
Louder than words: The new science of how the mind makes meaning. By Benjamin K. Bergen. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780465028290. $27.99 Imagine that you are a participant in the following psycholinguistic experiment. You are seated in front of a...
This lesson, Shannon Entropy Explained, is a good explanation of what Entropy is and why it is important. It Helps build the best message.
Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment< Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Mr. Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal, the multi-media news outlet of The Heritage Foundation. Mr. Stepman wrote In the wake of President Donald Trump’s...
Decision MakingHow to Make Better Decisions Better Decisions come better information, and better information comes from better communication. Ultimately all decisions are information dependent. Some of your decisions will be so routine that you make them without...
Noise as a Fundamental Obstacle to Learning Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason is "Noise."...
A Smart Recommender Based on Hybrid Learning Methods for Personal Well-Being Services Rayan M. Nouh, Hyun-Ho Lee, Won-Jin Lee, and Jae-Dong Lee* Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles...
Mediated Democracy - The Future of Political Agency The notion of ‘political agency’ draws attention at the (media) practices through which social actors re- produce, reorganise and challenge politics. At the same time, it poses questions about the structures, econom-...
People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty. There are many different...
Quarantine Fatigue Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic. In the earliest years of the HIV epidemic, confusion and fear reigned. AIDS was still known as the “gay plague.” To the extent...
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How you can protect yourself from misinformation. Throughout history, many smart people have fallen for lies. The current Covid-19 Pandemic provides a great opportunity to learn ways we can protect ourselves, and our community, from misinformation. It is a sad truth...
The Cognitive Science of Free Will How to make the best decisions is one of the "Key Questions" the @lantis Learning Community is interested in. This lesson is focused on how the brain constrains our decision making by fooling us about Free Will One of the main...
The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas. Networks pervade our lives. Every day we use intricate networks of roads, railways, maritime routes and...
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Abstract Deep learning is driving rapid innovations in artificial intelligence and influencing massive disruptions across all industries. This is the beginning of my effort to see if Deep Learning will...
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is one of many self-help programs that emerged in the 1970s and '80s but whose popularity has waned somewhat in recent years. NLP might be seen as a competitor with Landmark Forum, Tony Robbins, and legions of other enterprises...
The Paul Elder Critical thinking Framework is another attempt to help us process information better by providing structure to our thinking. Updated March 2, 2023
Reasoning Well is Critical for Effective Decision Making There is much truth to the old saying that life is just one decision after another. That’s why decision-making is one of life’s major preoccupations. "Reasoning well" is an essential ingredient in...
Who is Charlie Munger? Wit and Wisdom From The World’s Most Irreverent Billionaire Charlie Munger is one of the great minds of the 20th century. Below is an attempt to capture that wisdom in one shareable place. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you...
Being Critical, Not Thinking Critically Too often in practice, people equate critical thinking with merely being skeptical of whatever they hear. Or they will interpret it to mean that, when confronted with someone who says something that they disagree with,...
Herodotus mentioned whistled languages in the fourth book of his work The Histories, but until recently linguists had done little research on the sounds and meanings of this now endangered form of communication. New investigations have discovered the presence of...
I think the more you want to become more and more creative you have to not only elicit other peoples' (plural) strategies and replicate them yourself, but also modify others' strategies and have a strategy that creates new creativity strategies based on as many...
A Basic Introduction To Neural Networks http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/shipyard/neural/local.html What Is A Neural Network? The simplest definition of a neural network, more properly referred to as an 'artificial' neural network (ANN), is provided by the inventor of...
[ted id=2265] Great Video of how we think. Specifically the comments about how we can take very little information and create huge conclusions. 00:12 Imagine that you invented a device that can record my memories, my dreams, my ideas, and transmit them to your...
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake. So a Review of the Stanford Media Literacy Study Finds Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting...
4 Simple Media Literacy Rules I just heard the news: "The top 20 fake stories received more “shares, reactions, and comments” than the 20 top real news stories in the final months of the presidential campaign." It seems fake news is more appealing and, apparently,...
Media Literacy Challenges Did media literacy backfire? Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are...
Updated March 1, 2023 This Lesson is focused on finding the best ways to promote and support media literacy in the community. Our focus is on helping everyone, young and old, to develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st...
In order to process all the information available, we need to know how to translate conservative speak. In this case we can use GOP Rep Steve King. Steve was on CNN yesterday to explain to us all that Vladimir Putin is no real danger to free speech because, hey, Garry...
The Most Important Communication Skills Needed to Improve your Decision Making And Information Gathering. Becoming a great communicator – what does it mean and what does it take? Communication Styles De-Coded: How to identify and understand the different communication...
Good Information is the Foundation of Good Decision Making Some decisions we make are life-changing, like my decision to volunteer for the Army during the Viet Nam war. Other decisions are not life changing at all, as my decision this morning to buy an extra onion...
There are some things you might be doing to undermine your effectiveness as a communicator, and you may not even know you’re doing them. Over-Communicating You’re not an effective communicator if you just repeat the same message over and over. If you want to remind...
This lesson on the Neurophysiology of Religion looks at the cognitive science that tries to understand how we process Religious Information.
Iran J Neurol. 2014; 13(1): 52–55. PMCID: PMC3968360 PMID: 24800050 Neurotheology: The relationship between brain and religion Alireza Sayadmansourcorresponding author Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been...
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
I consider Claude Shannon one of my most important influences. Along with Alan Turing and F. A. Hayek. So, when I came across a post about Shannon's Problem Solving Algorithm, I had to read it. The post is Claude Shannon: How a Genius Solves Problems. In the post...
I consider Claude Shannon one of my most important influences. Along with Alan Turing and F. A. Hayek. So, when I came across a post about Shannon's Problem Solving Algorithm, I had to read it. The post is Claude Shannon: How a Genius Solves Problems. In the post...
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I am going to write more about this. This is just a placeholder. REP. TREY GOWDY, R—S.C., CHAIRMAN, HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: I think there are two things important to understand. Number one, the source of President Trump's frustration. Brennan say he should...
Brian Kemp is running for Governor. He recently ran what is referred to as the "Jake Ad." In it Kemp lies to his audience when he says the guy sitting next to him is "interested in his daughters." Actually he is an Actor. We have become so accustomed to...
Brian Kemp provides more evidence Conservatives cannot govern. Apparently Secretary of State Brian Kemp is attacking another Conservative group called Citizens for Georgia's Furture. Conservatives have to attack everyone. They trust no one. No wonder our government...
Evidence Karen Handel is not bipartisan can be found in a Lugar Center and Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy report. The study found Karen Handel to be one of the least bipartisan House lawmakers. She was 435 out of 438 in terms of her ability to...
The Republican Jewish Coalition held a job-interview-style forum with the five leading GOP candidates for Georgia governor Sunday, March 11, at Heritage Sandy Springs. Casey Cagle, Hunter Hill, Brian Kemp, Clay Tippins and Michael Williams each answered the same four...
Posted: Apr 08, 2018 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. It has been 18 months since the release of a 2005 Access Hollywood tape of a private conversation between Donald Trump and Billy Bush, but...
Reading the article you linked to, it doesn’t sound like these are lies. It sounds like these are justifications of the truth. Yes Pruitt flew first class, but he did it because of threats. Yes Pruitt gave raises to two staff members, but he didn’t realize he had to...
A new study into the genes of those who identify as transgender has picked up decent amount of media attention. The Times in the United Kingdom hailed what it called a genetic “discovery” with the headline “Science pinpoints DNA behind gender identity.” LGBTQ Nation...
Did I neglect to mention the fifth story in Politico, about John Kelly supposedly weighing whether to fire him? Good lord. I can’t remember the last time I saw a leak pile-on like this. There’s no telling who the culprit is either since Pruitt has enemies on both...
Remember the cry of, “We need a businessman in office!” when Trump was picking his way through the GOP field in 2015 and into 2016? Donald Trump managed to sell his supporters on the notion he’s a business genius, and it certainly helped him win the nomination and the...
According to a new report from The Daily Caller, there may be a reason why Parkland student David Hogg, for such a young, inexperienced fellow, seems to understand and utilize public relations and messaging strategies that it takes political operatives and...
While I have tried my very best to avoid writing about David Hogg and his cohorts – my inclination is that there is no winning an emotional conflict against teenagers who survived a school shooting – there is something few people are really talking about with regard...
Controversy continues to swirl around how the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from over 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge and used it to target ads to individuals in an effort to help Donald Trump be elected president in...
MEDIA03/29/2018 12:10 pm ET Updated 16 minutes ago Several companies announced Thursday that they were pulling the plug on advertising during Laura Ingraham’s show after the Fox News host bashed a teen survivor of the Parkland school shooting. Nutrish, the pet food...
Longtime Fox News contributor Lt. Col. Ralph Peters quit Tuesday and sent a scathing email to colleagues in which he said he is “ashamed” of the network’s blatant toadying to Pres. Donald Trump and his administration. “Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate...
Manned flight is impossible. Computers will never be smaller than a house. Space flight is “utter bilge.” The food pyramid. One doesn’t have to look far to find embarrassing, peer-reviewed, max-credentialed, decades-held-as-orthodoxy proclamations by the...
MEDIA 03/16/2018 04:51 am ET Fox News personalities have been largely praising President Donald Trump over his plans to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Some on the conservative network even said he should get a Nobel Peace Prize if he makes a...
MEDIA03/08/2018 11:59 am ET Sinclair Broadcast Group is reportedly requiring local news anchors at TV stations it owns to recite pre-written promotional spots disavowing the national media’s “fake stories” and “personal bias” ― some of President Donald Trump’s...
How to Hack Your Biased Brain You, and everybody you know, is biased, and it impacts the decisions you make. We spoke with an unconscious bias expert about how you can break free and make better decisions, for yourself and for your company. The idea of workplace...
Another journalistic icon is joining the fight against fake news. Steve Brill will shortly launch News Guard, a startup that rates news content, so consumers finding news via search or social media will have a better idea of whether it’s trustworthy. Brill rose...
Media entrepreneur Steven Brill thinks there’s something missing from all the efforts to separate fake news from the real kind: Some smart and discerning humans. Faced with the waves of mis- and disinformation lapping up on social media, Brill is proposing to apply...
An item in the liberal Daily Beast on Wednesday claimed sisters Claudia, Jackie, Olivia and Margo Oshry went to "great lengths" to hide from their combined 3.3 million Instagram followers the fact that their mother is right-wing provocateur and Trump supporter Pamela...
In recent weeks, two difficult, 'hot-button' social issues have been in the news. Each is directly tied to divisive calculations that occur at the tricky intersection of morality and public policy. Each involves debating hard trade-offs in the context of a debate...
Chuck Todd is not a happy man. The indictment announced today of thirteen Russian internet trolls (none of which were arrested) and three Russian entities (two of which have been under U.S. sanctions since 2014) is little more than kabuki. In his announcement,...
Some things haven't changed much since Columbine. Source: Shepard Smith Gives Fox News Viewers A Reality Check After Florida School Shooting | HuffPost
| Posted: Feb 12, 2018 12:01 AM It’s been said that the best job in politics is to be a press secretary for a liberal Democrat. Because the compliant press will write whatever you give them and they will never ask a follow-up question. Having spent most of my adult...
President Trump has decided not to declassify the Democratic rebuttal to a memo that details surveillance abuses at the FBI. Trump reviewed the rebuttal just as he did the Republican-authored memo, but decided against making it public because of national security...
The calendar has turned to February, and let's face it, we have let our unrealized New Year's resolutions quietly fade away. We thought we'd get in shape. We thought we'd save more money. We thought we'd do better -- be better -- this year. But now, we're retreating...
POLITICS02/08/2018 11:49 am ET White House adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared on "Fox & Friends" to talk about the Super Bowl. White House staff secretary Rob Porter announced his departure from his post this week amid reports that he allegedly abused his two...
POLITICS02/06/2018 07:15 pm ET Updated 9 hours ago Or so his critics keep hoping. WASHINGTON ― First, the dark clouds for those worried about fascism in America: President Donald Trump has adopted a phrase used in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany to attack the free...
President Trump on Twitter behavior: ‘I’m a very stable genius’ When asked during a NATO press conference if President Trump will tweet differently once departing on Air Force One, the president said he will not because he is a "stable genius." President Donald...
If your friends are telling you he is an idiot, why is he performing well, where it counts? I think there are too many who rush to judge the President on style, or personality, when they should be judging him on performance. Is it just that many are too caught up in...
Conservative-Cartoon-Hitler-Trump-Liberals This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank RobertsBrad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be...
Fox News updated a story that erroneously claimed one of Roy Moore ’s accusers had “forged” evidence she’d presented to bolster her claim against him. Beverly Young Nelson said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred in November that the Republican Alabama...
The case of Nydia Tisdale, a Georgia citizen journalist, illuminates the power of the State to force behavior. But, while they may be able to force behavior, they cannot control information. Once the guilty verdict was announced it was posted on the Internet. Then...
I saw today that Roy Moore still has 46% to 41% lead over his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones. And I have to say, the fact that so many still support Roy Moore and say they would rather have Roy Moore than any Democrat, exposes Evangelicals bias against...
Leah Barkoukis, in this post, claims to clearly demonstrate Media Bias. Her intent is to somehow minimize the Moore problem for the GOP by showing selective facts that suggest Liberals are worse. Ms. Barkoukis said, "Over a four-day period from November 9 to November...
Erick Erickson's Roy Moore defense makes his tribalism transparent. He, and many, so called Christian Conservatives very willing defense of Roy Moore clearly exposes his tribalism. To believe bad things about Roy Moore has been happily married since 1985. There have...