Trawl industry news or employment classifieds (pick your preferred sector) using keywords like “research” and “information”, and you might find yourself thinking that the sum total of reality is digital, too big […]
Michael A. Innes
Confronted by a fate that restricts their lives
I know nothing of Korea, other than having a general sense of the roles its politically divided geographies play vis-a-vis US and global security, two subjects that I follow closely. Occasionally a […]
A signed statement on the failure of language
I’ve stayed away from commenting publicly on the new US administration. There’s so much fodder, so much grist, that it could easily overwhelm. It does overwhelm. Daily news feeds are prefaced and […]
A brief foray into distraction’s history
This looks interesting: A Crisis of Short Attention Spans, 250 Years Ago By Natalie M. Phillips | January 01, 2017 When most people think of distraction, they think of flooded inboxes, cellphone […]
What “post-factual news” means for researchers
Some semi-random thoughts, as headlines continue to focus on “post-factual” news: There is a lot in common between what we’re seeing now in Britain and the US, and researchable “news” in fragile […]
