There are many different kinds of literacy, more than just being able to read words and understand them. Media literacy is the ability to understand and distinguish what is being communicated through various means of mass communication – TV, news, Internet, and more. This is critically important as our society and becoming more and more saturated on propaganda or entertainment by contains questionable content. Finland began teaching media literacy at age 3 as Russian propaganda is a pervasive issue in their society.
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Finland teaches media literacy early as three years old
There are many different kinds of literacy, more than just being able to read words and understand them. Media literacy is the ability to understand and distinguish what is being communicated through various means of mass communication – TV, news, Internet, and more. This is critically important as our society and becoming more and more…
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Medical Aide in Dying
In 2016, voters passed the End of Life Options Act, which makes it legal for terminally ill adult Coloradans to obtain and self-administer a fatal dose of prescribed medication. Roughly 1,100 people have used MAID in the state, and recent legislation increased access for the sickest patients. Robert Sanchez humanizes how those with terminal illnesses…
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An airplane meet cute
If you have ever flown solo on an airplane, you know how much of a gamble it is who your seats will be for the duration of your flight. Most of the time, it’s a non-event. You sit there. They sit there. Maybe you share basic pleasantries or small talk. Every now and then, you…
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Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese samurai in Europe
A cool piece of history: Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Japanese samurai, served as a diplomat in 17th century Europe.
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Pilot makes a smiley face
(warning, a couple f-bombs) a couple guys captured in pilot making a smile, smiley face in the air above them.
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Confronting JK Rowling’s bigotry
Sandy Ernest Allen Confronts J.K. Rowling’s Virulent Transphobia. Here was an extremely wealthy and culturally powerful woman who, for some reason, insisted on making her bigoted views about people like me openly and widely known. And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and…
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Alexandra Petri attempts to be the government
What happens when you send a humorist to do investigative reporting? You get a story about how absolutely insane it is when the government won’t do his job. Alexandra Petri set out to perform tasks usually allocated to a government agency employee. What became a five-month quest to assume government responsibilities took me from the…
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The Moylan Arrow
That little arrow on your dashboard that points either left or right, tells you which side of your gas tank is on. It’s such a simple design, and it even has a name, The Moylan Arrow, named after the engineer, Jim Moylan. “I would like to propose a small addition,” he wrote, “in all passenger…
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Backing up Spotify
Anna’s Archive backed up Spotify. The whole article is interesting about the process and the analysis that they did on the data set. They walked in the home process and including charts class, they even offer a truly random song selection.
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Dragonsweeper
Here’s a fun Minesweeper clone that combines dungeon-crawling elements with a Minesweeper-like grid, called Dragonsweeper. The numbers indicate the hit points of the monsters in those squares. You need to collect gold in order to level up and earn more hearts to take on larger monsters.