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Just some links
How Modern Life is Transforming the Human Skeleton
We have this idea that bones are just kind of there, unchanging, following the DNA that shapes the rest of our body. They grow the way bones grow unless there's some genetic issue. But no! Bones are alive and are malleable! They adapt and change due to different forces. This article goes in to it a bit.
Jessica Logan was convicted of murdering her child because of 911 call "forensic evidence"
The above article contains information about child death. It's about a woman who called 911 when she came upon her baby's dead body at 3:00 am, and how that call was weaponized against her. More and more "forensic evidence," like bite mark analysis and established arson forensics, doesn't hold up at all to scrutiny. It's just pattern recognition that's codified into part of the legal system, damning evidence against people who can't afford a good lawyer.
How Librarians Can Fight QAnon
Little article about the rise in active conspiracy thought and "fake news" and how librarians can help guide people toward not just "doing research" (information literacy) but understanding how information systems work. This is a subject I need to read up on myself to discuss with my kid.
The Dark is Rising
"When the dark comes rising/six shall turn it back..." I read Tolkien before I came across this book, and yet it's this book whose poetry I memorized first. There's a BBC audio production coming out, which I'm greatly looking forward to.
We have this idea that bones are just kind of there, unchanging, following the DNA that shapes the rest of our body. They grow the way bones grow unless there's some genetic issue. But no! Bones are alive and are malleable! They adapt and change due to different forces. This article goes in to it a bit.
Jessica Logan was convicted of murdering her child because of 911 call "forensic evidence"
The above article contains information about child death. It's about a woman who called 911 when she came upon her baby's dead body at 3:00 am, and how that call was weaponized against her. More and more "forensic evidence," like bite mark analysis and established arson forensics, doesn't hold up at all to scrutiny. It's just pattern recognition that's codified into part of the legal system, damning evidence against people who can't afford a good lawyer.
How Librarians Can Fight QAnon
Little article about the rise in active conspiracy thought and "fake news" and how librarians can help guide people toward not just "doing research" (information literacy) but understanding how information systems work. This is a subject I need to read up on myself to discuss with my kid.
The Dark is Rising
"When the dark comes rising/six shall turn it back..." I read Tolkien before I came across this book, and yet it's this book whose poetry I memorized first. There's a BBC audio production coming out, which I'm greatly looking forward to.