The Braindead Megaphone
The Braindead Megaphone : kotttke.org points to, what seems, a fine and interesting essay.
September 11th, 2007 / Tags: media / TrackbackPosts tagged with “media”
Movies dumbing down science: a list of egregious (and funny) offenses
Movies dumbing down science: a list of egregious (and funny) offenses: “As we’ve discussed more times than I care to recall, the US educational system does not do a good job of producing scientifically-literate adults, and the media isn’t a force for clarity in the sciences either. Two physicists from the University of Central Florida are now saying the combination of the two makes everything that much worse. They claim that as Hollywood mixes realistic special effects with the physically absurd, they’re leaving a scientifically-illiterate public completely bewildered about what’s actually possible here in the real world.”
August 17th, 2007 / Tags: junk science, media / TrackbackAfrican Path
African Path: a blog/news site dedicated to news from a continent that only seems to make it into our Western media when something bad happens. This here site has that, too, and so much more.
January 10th, 2007 / Tags: africa, media / Trackback