Correcting Misinformation on Social Media May Spread It Further
MIT researchers found that correcting a Twitter user “shifts their attention not to accuracy but toward social things like being embarrassed.”
The Boston Globe
Topics: Decision-Making Information
Most People Don’t Actively Seek to Share Fake News
New research shows that subtly nudging people to think about accuracy increases the quality of the news they share.
Scientific American
To Combat False News, Correct After Reading
Study shows people are influenced more by fact-checks after they read news headlines, not before.
MIT News
Topics: Belief Cognition Information
The Enduring Allure of Conspiracies
Conspiracy theories seem to meet psychological needs and can be almost impossible to eradicate. One remedy: Keep them from taking root in the first place.
Knowable Magazine
Topics: Belief Cognition Information Knowledge Power
Why You Don’t Really Know What You Know
One of the world’s biggest science experiments shows why everybody needs to re-examine what it means to know something.
MIT Technology Review
Topics: Cognition Cooperation Information Knowledge Trust
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory
To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Evolutionary Theory Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life
MIT Researchers Found a Way to Deter People From Sharing COVID-19 Conspiracies
A new study suggests that periodically prompting users to think about news accuracy could help limit the sharing of misinformation.
Fast Company
Topics: Decision-Making Information Social Cognition
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
A proposal for building wormhole-connected black holes offers a way to probe the paradoxes of quantum information.
Topics: Black Holes Entanglement Information Quantum Gravity Quantum Mechanics Relativity
How Much of This Post Will You Read Before Making Up Your Mind About It?
From evaluating artwork, novel foods, or goods and services to evaluating peers, political candidates, and marriage prospects, people use far less information than they think they will before making judgments and decisions.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Information
First Things First: The Physics of Causality
Why do we remember the past and not the future? Untangling the connections between cause and effect, choice, and entropy.
FQXi
Topics: Agency Information Nature of Time
Life ≠ Alive
A cat is alive, a sofa is not: that much we know. But a sofa is also part of life. Information theory tells us why.
Aeon
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life
Presenting Science to the Public in a Post-Truth Era
Grappling with the challenge of how, in this time of sweeping science denial, scientists can craft messages about their research that not only inform but also persuade.
UConn Today
Topics: Belief Bias Information Knowledge
Facts Aren’t Enough: The Psychology of False Beliefs
Sometimes, when we believe something, no amount of data can change our minds.
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Belief Bias Emotion Information Knowledge Social Networks Trust
Can Time Be Saved From Physics?
Philosophers, physicists, and neuroscientists discuss how our sense of time’s flow might arise through our interactions with external stimuli — despite suggestions from Einstein’s relativity that our perception of the passage of time is an illusion.
Topics: Information Metaphysics
Are We Close to Solving the Puzzle of Consciousness?
Giulio Tononi’s “integrated information theory” might solve neuroscience’s biggest puzzle.
BBC Future
Topics: Consciousness Information
Paul Davies on the Origin of Life and the Evolution of Cancer
Physicist Paul Davies is interested in some of the biggest questions that we can ask. What is life? How did the universe begin? How will it end? And are we alone?
The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4
Topics: Big Bang Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life Paul Davies Science & Religion Dialogue Universe
Doubling Down: Preserving Our Humanity in the Digital Age
Scientist, musician, writer, and virtual pioneer Jaron Lanier and author and digital-era essayist Sue Halpern in conversation with ICE at Dartmouth director Marcelo Gleiser.
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement
Topics: Information Technology
Maxwell’s Demon and the Hunt for Alien Life
A review of Paul Davies’ latest book, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life.
Nature
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Information Paul Davies
The Selfish Dataome
Does the data we produce serve us, or vice versa?
Nautilus
Topics: Information Intelligence Knowledge
Constructing a Theory of Life
An all-encompassing framework of physics could help to explain the evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and free will.
Topics: Consciousness Emergence Free Will Information Intelligence Quantum Mechanics
Demon in the Details of Quantum Thermodynamics
Researchers find quantum ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ may give up information to extract work.
Washington University in St. Louis
Topics: Information Particles Quantum Mechanics Superposition
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