Cold War Mentalities Die Hard: Propaganda 1, People 0
It would seem as though talk of a Cold War between East and West has returned…
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Resolutions of Pleasure, not Pain?
Why do most New Year’s resolutions fail? Because the vast majority of resolutions are based…
5 Ways Political Candidates Influence Your Perception
Election campaigns are a lot like advertising or propaganda – they all aim to make us…
Is Propaganda on Twitter Trivializing War?
Are social networks trivializing war? And are we complicit in retweeting? With recent conflicts, has come a…
To Google or not to Google, That is the Question
A spectacular thing happened this weekend past, London’s Globe Theatre played Hamlet in Canada. Unless…
How Propaganda Persuades You & 5 Things You Can Do About It
In a bid to curtail the pollution of my social feeds from hoaxes, slanted messages,…
Naiveté & The Net
Facebook continued to fuel the usual public outrage with news of a 2012 study on the emotions…
Gone From Google… But Not Forgotten
Google has begun the process of removing links to “outdated or irrelevant” content in European search…
4 Books to Feed Your Brain
As Joseph Addison was to have said, “reading is to the mind what exercise is…
Trust Me, I’m Lying
What La Generalista has to say: This is a must-read, tell-it-like-it-is book chronicling the state of…