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Friday, September 26, 2008, 07:00 PM: Truthiness and Agnotology
Does the massive increase in communications, brought about by cable and satellite television, and, especially, the internet, help us find truth?
Or does it help spread doubt, confusion, lies, mythology, crackpot conspiracy theories, and the like? As internet bandwidth continues its upward spiral into the future, what should we expect in the future?
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Sociology
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Jack Handey, author of the popular deep thoughts, would have a tough time making it in today's business world. Why? Because it's not what you think, it's not how good you are, it's ultimately who you know.
I first began to realize that in 1995 when I was an electrical engineering student at the University of Kentucky. I applied for a co-op position at Lexmark, and never heard anything back.
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Women of all educational levels from 21 to 30 living in New York City and working full time made 117 percent of men’s wages, and even more in Dallas, 120 percent. Nationwide, that group of women made much less: 89 percent of the average full-time pay for men.
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A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who claimed that she beat her son and that he had her under surveillance. Kathy Sierra, who won a large following by blogging about designing software that makes people happy, became a target of anonymous online attacks that included photos of her with a noose around her neck and a muzzle over her mouth.
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Did you know that people living in the Western region of the United States are more likely to become victims of a serial killer than people living in the Northeast? The study examined male serial killers in the United States from 1970 to 1992 using sociological perspectives long used to understand other crimes. According to the study, social structural factors, such as the percentage of a state's urban population, divorced residents, one-person households and unemployed residents, all helped to explain why some states and regions are home to more male serial killers.
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New York follows a 24-hour schedule, as if it were always awake to connect to the rest of the globe. Mumbai, India, ranks 24th as the origin of calls into Manhattan, and 11th in calls into Queens. Toronto, Canada, is one of the main destinations for calls out of Manhattan, but accounts for only 1 percent of calls from the Bronx. Global talk happens both at the top of the economy and at its lower end. The vast middle layers of our society are far less global; the middle talks mostly nationally and locally. Compared with London, New York has a more global reach into Asian and South American hubs such as Beijing, Bogotá and Riyadh, and London has more of a reach into Europe and the United States. Perhaps London's relationship to Europe is analogous to what is conventionally believed to be New York's relationship to the whole of the United States.
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For every 100 girl babies born there are 105 boy babies born. For every 100 girls expelled from public elementary and secondary schools ...
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