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Collaboration is in.","authors":"Susan Cain","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.4","num_reviews":"1","title":"Police: Iraq War Veteran Suspected Of Killing Park Ranger Found Dead","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/benjamin-colton-barnes-_n_1179815.html","date":"2012/01/03","id":8494494,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"A plane searching the remote wilderness for Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, on Monday discovered his body lying partially submerged in an icy, snowy mountain creek with snow banks standing several feet high on either side.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"The New York Times Discovers It\u2019s Virtually Impossible To Keep Weight Off","url":"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/12/29/the_new_york_times_magazine_the_fat_trap_and_the_impossibility_of_lasting_weight_loss.html","date":"2011/12/29","id":8491581,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"With New Year\u2019s and its attendant resolutions just around the corner, articles about weight loss are cropping up in all the usual places (i.e., everywhere you look). One of the most comprehensive and personal essays on the topic can be found in this week","authors":"L. V. Anderson","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Slate","framebuster":false,"id":"slate","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.3","num_reviews":"2","title":"Fact-checking in the Echo Chamber Nation","url":"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/dec/22/fact-checking-echo-chamber-nation/","date":"2011/12/23","id":8478938,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"At a Republican campaign rally a few years ago, I asked one of the attendees how he got his news. \"I listen to Rush and read NewsMax,\" he said. \"And to make sure I'm getting a balanced view, I watch Fox.\" My liberal friends get their information from distinctly different sources \u2014 Huffington Post, Daily Kos and Rachel Maddow. To make sure they get a balanced view, they click Facebook links \u2014 from their liberal friends. This is life in our echo chamber nation. We protect ourselves from opinions we don't like and seek reinforcement from like-minded allies. The paradox ...","authors":"Bill Adair","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"PolitiFact","framebuster":false,"id":"politifact","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"2","title":"The Psychology Of Nakedness","url":"http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/the-psychology-of-nakedness/","date":"2011/11/30","id":8441760,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"The human mind sees minds everywhere. Show us a collection of bouncing balls and we hallucinate agency; a glance at a stuffed animal and we endow it with a mood; I\u2019m convinced Siri doesn\u2019t like me. The point is that we are constantly translating our visual perceptions into a theory of mind, as we attempt to imagine the internal states of teddy bears, microchips and perfect strangers.","authors":"Jonah Lehrer","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Wired","framebuster":false,"id":"wired","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"2","title":"The Limits of Magical Thinking","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/opinion/limits-of-magical-thinking.html","date":"2011/10/26","id":8259137,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Steve Jobs, the mad perfectionist, even perfected his stare. He wanted it to be hypnotic. He wanted the other person to blink first. He wanted it to be, like Dracula\u2019s saturnine gaze, a force that could bend your will to his and subsume your reality","authors":"Maureen Dowd","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.3","num_reviews":"1","title":"How to stop the political insanity","url":"http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/07/how_to_stop_the_political_insanity/","date":"2011/10/07","id":8047668,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Salon","framebuster":false,"id":"salon","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"1","title":"Stockbrokers More Competitive, Willing To Take Risks Than Psychopaths","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/stockbroker-psychopath_n_981950.html","date":"2011/09/27","id":7921337,"story_type":"Research","quote":"Various studies have suggested that a certain kind of psychological profile gravitates toward the fast-paced, high-pressure environment of the trading floor -- and that this profile probably has more than a little in common with psychopathic personality, a clinical condition marked by gregariousness, impulsiveness, dishonesty and lack of empathy.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"5","title":"Why Do They Do It?","url":"http://factcheck.org/2011/09/why-do-they-do-it/","date":"2011/09/16","id":7796754,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Why do politicians persist in peddling exaggerations, twisted facts and outright falsehoods? Here's a theory from a veteran political reporter.\n\nJon Keller of WBZ in Boston offered up his explanation in his \"Keller @ Large\" commentary for Sept. 15. It was prompted by our coverage of the recent Republican presidential candidates' debate and our criticism of President Obama's jobs speech.\n\nWe were flattered by the nice mention, of course. But what really caught our attention was Keller's conclusion:\n\nJon Keller, Sept. 15: The president and all his allies and enemies have one thing in common \u2014 they frequently cite and repeat falsehoods that reflect, at best, sloppiness and carelessness, and, at worst, outright dishonesty.\nWhy do they think they can get away with this reprehensible behavior?\nBecause we do it all the time ourselves.\nWe repeat gossip and rumor, forward garbage e-mails, and convince ourselves that falsehoods which fit our world view are actually the truth.\n\nSo I\u2019m wondering \u2013 why would we expect the people who represent us to not reflect us in this way as well?\n\nWe see evidence of that every day at FactCheck.org. Readers forward to us an endless stream of chain emails they have received containing false claims. The emails come from family, friends or acquaintances who either don't know that they are repeating falsehoods, or don't care. Some of these messages have been circulating for years, despite being debunked by us and often by other myth-busting sites as well.\n\nSo do we, the public, get the politicians we deserve? That's a question worth pondering before sending on that viral email that so perfectly confirms your opinions, but which you haven't really checked out for factual accuracy.","authors":"Brooks Jackson","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"2","title":"With great graphs comes great responsibility","url":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/with-great-graphs-comes-great-responsibility/2011/08/25/gIQAxKdZNK_blog.html?referrer=newstrust","date":"2011/09/13","id":7749644,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Want to convince someone of something? Show them a graph. At least, that\u2019s what political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler found in a series of experiments testing the best ways to correct factual misinformation. Key quote: \u201cGraphical corrections are also found to successfully reduce incorrect beliefs among potentially resistant subjects and to perform better than an equivalent textual correction.\u201d Full paper \u2014 with graphs \u2014 here (pdf). ...","authors":"Ezra Klein","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Washington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"washington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}}]