17 2025 July
An Important Lesson About Youth Culture from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Every summer on the National Mall in DC the Smithsonian hosts their Folklife Festival. Typically, the weekend-long event brings craftspeople from around the world to...
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16 2025 July
Researchers Are Now Hiding Prompts in Papers to Guarantee Good AI Reviews
Research papers from a variety of academics published in multiple journals were found to contain prompts hidden in white text instructing AI reviewer tools with...
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27 2025 June
Inside the Relentlessly Cheerful Campaign of Zohran Mamdani
Amidst all the coverage of what some news outlets described as a “political earthquake” with relative newcomer Zohran Mamdani defeating longtime NY politician Andrew Cuomo...
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25 2025 June
New Event Planner Survey Suggests Celebrity Keynote Speakers May Be a Waste of Money
I have “shared the stage” with Jay Leno. That’s industry lingo for saying that I was the second (much less expensive) keynote speaker at an...
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23 2025 June
Denmark’s Radical Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge
It is a beach cliché to see random idiots with metal detectors and sifters trying to find everything from loose change to diamond earrings. Using...
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16 2025 June
How To See Through a Manipulated Headline (A Retailwire Case Study)
One thing I often talk about in this newsletter is honing our media literacy. This week I found a perfect case study to illustrate how...
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The Secret of Optimism and the New Peruvian Airport
Earlier this week when I arrived in Lima, it was in their brand new airport that is less than two weeks old. People in the city had...
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Why Boys Are Falling Behind In School (And How To Fix It)
American schools and kindergarten specifically are not designed for boys … But they should be. That’s the conclusion from a piece in the New York...
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The Real Question About AI: How Many Decisions Do We Want It To Make?
Is AI really better than nothing? That is the question we are immediately going to be asking as two stories emerge this week about some...
Read Now06 2025 June
The Doing and Undoing and Redoing and Undoing of American Policy
Being outraged used to be easier. You could look at a policy or an announcement or something happening in the world and if you disagreed...
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The Man (and Book) That Might Actually Change the World
What if the greatest problem in the world was a lack of moral ambition among the best and brightest people? As a recent interview with...
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The Emerging Future of Radio
Radio, and its future, are front and center right now in a lot of conversations. There’s the recent news that NPR is suing the Trump...
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The Campaign to Stop the Spread of Fake Media – PSAi
The best strategy to fight back against the rise of fake media is prioritizing media literacy training for adults and kids. This past week to...
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