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Didn’t read it? Shouldn’t tweet it, Twitter says

Twitter says it’s working on bringing its “read the article before you retweet it” prompt to all users “soon.” The company began testing the prompt in June, which shows up when people go to retweet a story they haven’t clicked through to actually read. Twitter says its inspiration is to “help advance educated conversation.” Headlines regularly don’t recount […]

Robots in workplace ‘could create double the jobs they destr

I’ve been saying this myself for years. One job is replaced by a robot, that requires a whole team to maintain. This means not only that the amount of jobs isn’t going to drastically decrease, but that the jobs that remain are more high end and better paid. Businesses save money replacing workers with robots, […]

Scientific Literacy Isn’t just Knowing Science Facts

Carl Sagan quote body of knowledge science way of thinkning

This post relates a lot to the above quote. When people think of scientific literacy it makes sense that they think it’s general scientific knowledge and understanding. But scientific literacy has to do with things that may be traced back to science, but isn’t technically scientific knowledge. Examples include; understanding how to use technology, emotional […]