20 Million Lives Have Been Saved by the Measles Vaccine Since 2000.
(…) the WHO’s report wasn’t all good news — it also revealed that 134,200 children were killed by measles in 2015.
I hope this story is verified…
It took only 36 hours for these students to solve Facebook's fake-news problem.
Kid Creole’s request remained unheard.
The World’s Coconuts Are in Danger ... and it won't be easy to save them.
Who does not know browser’s history is doomed to reopen it.
Accidentally Closing Browser Window With 23 Tabs Open Presents Rare Chance At New Life.
On epigenetics: we need both Darwin’s and Lamarck’s theories.
Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck.
Delection
Awash in false conspiracy theories, protest voters and angry non-voters put Trump in the White House.
The only things worse than Silicon Valley's refusal to respond to Trump's hate before he was elected is what they're doing now.
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time.
On a lighter note:
Even when one party has control, fights can get loud and hard.
Far too late did I come across learning.mozilla.org – an astonishing approach towards teaching people about the web and increasing web literacy. I wish I had known this from the start of my little web dev and technology curriculum for journalist students…
My current favorite are the HTML Puzzle Boxes.
How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down.
After his book Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
Online risks have real-world consequences.
Most people have had at least one negative online experience that resulted in real-world consequences, including a loss of trust in others, increased stress or sleep deprivation, preliminary results of a new Microsoft survey show.
Blue Feed, Red Feed (via reddit.com).
See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side.