“No other proposed use for this property provides the educational, public access, recreation and environmental benefits that Burlingame Shoreline Park provides. “

The function of the semicolon is to indicate that two clauses are in a coherence relation, without indicating which relation it is (elaboration, exception, exemplification, result, etc.). stevenpinker.com/publications/s…

A new reason to be wary of location services if you are an Android user or have any Google apps on your phone gothamist.com/2019/08/12/goo…

“I want you to do good, have good times, same with my parents. I’ll see you when you get here. I want you to know that I totally love you.” #NeverForget

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New from me! A condensed guide to verification: essential concepts, plus some favorite tips and tools for investigations

The high stakes gamble of court for abused women & children. Such important work here from Joan Meier Forbes #domesticabuse forbes.com/sites/naomicah…

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Great primer on updating your priors by Siobhan Roberts. nytimes.com/2020/08/04/sci…

My piece unpacking what happened with the "6%" rumor about CDC death statistics is finally up on our site, but since it's been a couple weeks since this blew up, I just want to highlight one takeaway that is really important—

The damage of this story is not just that a misleading statistic blew up, and the president retweeted it. It's that news stations across the country ran an *old* piece of data as if it were a *new* revelation. This can be easily avoided. I will explain how.

The gist of the misconception was this: it is true that only 6% of Covid-19 deaths come without other comorbidities. However: all this means is that doctors are recording other problems present in the body at the time of death. Eg: pneumonia, which is often *caused* by the Covid

A video in which I attempt to explain in 2 minutes and 56 seconds how to set up your tweetdeck with boolean queries to monitor *local* misinformation and other claims about the election youtube.com/watch?v=aR75m7…

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