Author Archives: sterni
The Greek Alphabet Will No Longer Be Used to Name Hurricanes
Happy birthday and Happy Pi Day
Today is always a special day for me. One of the most influential people in my life gets to celebrate their birthday today and the day that everyone else get to enjoy complete guilt free pie. 🥧 As for the birthday person, I am ways wishing them the very best and hope that they take […]
Rural Quagmire
James Pogue,  November 10 Democrats again fail to escape an electoral trap of their own making https://thebaffler.com/latest/rural-quagmire-pogue
Disney’s new robot has a creepily human gaze
How Netflix made Breaking Bad a hit — and why that won’t happen again
I agree it was the first show that I totally binged watch and actually payed for once I caught to to season 4. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/14/21312595/netflix-breaking-bad-podcast-streaming-land-of-the-giants
Been saying this for years. Human are too linear to understand.
In a recent experiment, we show how framing crucially affects people’s responses to one of the most important building blocks of the COVID-19 informational puzzle: the number of deaths. We show that the logarithmic scale graphs that the media routinely use to display this information are poorly understood by the public and affect people’s attitudes and […]
Posting this just so I can remember this craziness a few years from now.
Again, higher education will change forever after coronavirus..
It’s a long read, but if you’re in high Ed, kinda important.. I’ve been telling people education after coronavirus will never be the same. As the article points out, there are some big negatives for some school as the fight of online/hybrid education will, in my opinion, finally take hold in every school and it’s […]