Category Archives: Media

The Reason Most Experts Avoid Using Pie Charts.

https://www.sciencealert.com/most-experts-avoid-using-pie-charts-heres-why • Pie charts are commonly used to visualize big data, but experts avoid them due to their potential for misrepresentation and difficulty in interpretation.• Pie charts become harder to read when there are multiple categories or when presented in … Continue reading

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The Veil of Silence over Excess Deaths

https://soniaelijah.substack.com/p/piercing-the-veil-of-silence-over We’ve experienced more excess deaths since July 2021 than in the whole of 2020, unlike the pandemic, however, these deaths are not disproportionately of the old, in other words, the excess deaths are striking down people in the prime of … Continue reading

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China Censor a Photo of Two Women Athletes Embracing

https://hyperallergic.com/849175/did-china-censor-a-photo-of-two-women-athletes-embracing/ After completing the women’s 100-meter hurdles final on Sunday, October 1 at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the capital city of China’s eastern Zhejiang province, teammates Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni came together in a congratulatory hug. Lin had … Continue reading

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Yom Kippur and the Scarlet Thread

https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/yom-kippur-and-the-scarlet-thread/ The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the tent of meeting … Continue reading

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The Taxi Driver by Bruno Guimarães

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/bruno-guimaraes-brazil-premier-league-newcastle They used to drive up to see me in the taxi on weekends. Even on his day off, my dad couldn’t escape the yellow taxi, number 039. For three years, I struggled at the academy. By the time I … Continue reading

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TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/04/tiktok-to-be-fined-for-breaching-childrens-privacy-in-eu TikTok is to be fined potentially millions of pounds for breaching children’s privacy after a ruling by EU data protection regulator. The European Data Protection Board said it had reached a binding decision on the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform over … Continue reading

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Why media literacy is key to tackling AI-powered misinformation

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4108304-why-media-literacy-is-key-to-tackling-ai-powered-misinformation/

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Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

https://futurism.com/google-showing-newspapers-ai-news-generator • Google secretly shows major newspapers an AI-powered news generator called Genesis.• Genesis can generate news content by digesting public information, raising concerns about AI-generated content flooding the internet.• Google is stridently denying that the tool is meant to … Continue reading

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National Geographic cuts all staff writers

https://focusmalaysia.my/national-geographic-cuts-all-staff-writers/ Owned since 2019 by the Walt Disney Co, the 135-year-old chronicler of the natural world has seen a slew of job reductions over the past several years, including an unprecedented layoff of six top editors last September, the Post … Continue reading

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The Beatles by Junji Ito

According to the Bing image creator, this is what the Beatles would have looked like if horror master Ito had drawn them.

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