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How Can We Disavow ‘Facts’?
Major Revisions That Reshape Science and History The discovery of a new body part – corneal layer – is a good example of the need for major revisions ‘The death of certain theories doesn’t mean that scientists and historians are lying to us – rather, it means society is getting a little bit closer to […]
How Video Led Snowden to Contact Filmmaker
‘So if you’re looking to stay current with the best documentaries and news videos, make sure you’re subscribed to The I Files. We explore beyond the headlines and always come back with great stories – and we do it all without rifling through your browser history. In other words, we have no idea how many […]
Top 100 Most Pirated Files
Cinema Only Plays Film Clips Being Shared Illegally In Real-Time [Video] ‘The Pirate Cinema is an interesting tribute to the world of pirated movies and TV shows – giving visitors a way to actually see what’s happening on one of the largest peer-to-peer websites. ‘Created by Nicolas Maigret and Brendan Howell, the display uses a […]
Social Media Lingo and Oxford Snobbery
Why ‘To Tweet’ Is Lowercase but ‘To Google’ Is Not ‘The linguistic snobs over at the Oxford English Dictionary have accepted “tweet” — as in to post something on Twitter — into its exclusive language club because “it seems to be catching on” as a verb in its own right, which got us thinking: how […]
Avoid Cloud Storage for Stricter Privacy
Dropbox and Google Drive are some favorite cloud storage ‘As web users, we are helplessly — almost laughably — devoted to the cloud. A 2012 IHS iSuppli report predicts that by 2017, 1.3 billion online users will subscribe to cloud services. Our files, photos and financial records are all connected to a cloud overlord, and […]
Everything You Need to Know About PRISM
Experts on How Twitter Evaded PRISM Why isn’t Twitter part of the NSA PRISM snooping program? Although Twitter’s cred on privacy is high, was it just lucky with PRISM? ‘Twitter was founded in 2006, and certainly over the course of PRISM’s development, Twitter has evolved into a major platform. You would expect it to catch […]
On-line Privacy is DEAD
List of social networks hacked by FBI/NSA Gmail Facebook Hotmail Yahoo Apple Skype Youtube Your private documents of those services were scanned and stored in FBI/NSA files. Notice that Twitter is not included. The Irony: US should secure Armed Forces digital files (hacked by China) before it hacks its citizens’ files. The NSA Prism Program […]
How to Humanize What You Write
Marketing writers would learn from this ‘Given our sense of urgency to get our messages out there (on social media, in press releases, and in blog posts) and our need to prove our worth to executives and clients, we often forget that we are writing for human beings. ‘Here are a few tips from the […]
Were You a Third Culture Kid?
“A third culture kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture. The third culture kid builds relationships to all the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the third culture kid’s life experience, the […]
