How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses When I showed some of these Instagram accounts to Sophie Bishop, a lecturer in digital humanities at King’s College London, she identified in all of them a “very recognizable,” feminine-coded aesthetic. “It’s aspirational, and then it’s also authentic enough to allow for relatability,” she […]
Honesty is majority policy in lost wallet experiment
Public more likely to return wallet containing larger sum of money, global study finds Here’s a moral dilemma: if you find a wallet stuffed with bank notes, do you pocket the cash or track down the owner to return it? We can each speak for ourselves, but now a team of economists have put the […]
WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS
Three Book Reviews about How Humans Reason or Not. New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. “The Enigma of Reason,” “The Knowledge Illusion,” and “Denying to the Grave” were all written before the November election. And yet they anticipate Kellyanne Conway and the rise of “alternative facts.” These days, it can […]