Podcasts about Nyhan

Discover how to handle workplace biases effectively with actionable strategies to strengthen your conflict resolution skills. In this episode of the Conflict Skills Podcast, Simon Goode explores cognitive dissonance, its impact on decision-making, and biases such as confirmation bias, selective exposure, and the ostrich effect. Learn practical techniques for effective communication, fostering collaboration, and offering constructive criticism while navigating conflicts with colleagues or supervisors. Whether you're dealing with tough workplace debates, refining your mediation approach, or improving your effective listening skills, this episode is packed with insights designed to enhance your professional relationships. Watch until the end to master debate tactics and uncover tools that help you set boundaries and address biases constructively. Perfect for anyone looking to grow in workplace mediation or improve interactions in professional and personal settings. Subscribe now for more conflict resolution tips and resources!#nonviolentcommunication #affinitybias #professionaldevelopment #implicitbiasatwork #howtostopbiasatworkCHAPTERS:00:00 - Introduction to Cognitive Dissonance00:22 - Understanding Cognitive Dissonance04:17 - Exploring Confirmation Bias11:10 - The Concept of Selective Exposure15:14 - The Ostrich Effect Explained19:08 - Understanding the Backfire Effect21:40 - Strategies to Manage the Backfire Effect26:16 - Conclusion and Wrap-UpPapers:Festinger, L. (1957). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance.” Stanford University Press.Nickerson, R. S. (1998). “Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises.” Review of General Psychology.Nyhan, B., & Reifler, J. (2010). “When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions.” Political Behavior. Link Click here to send me a quick message via FanMailwebsite: simongoode.com email: podcast@simongoode.com

Matt and Allie visit the West Chester Center to talk to Asst. Clinic Manager and PTA Barbie Vieira, and her patient Jane. You'll learn all about Jane and how she got injured on the job as a Flight Attendant. Jane shares her experience in the work conditioning/ hardening program at Oxford PT and how her determination and hard work got her back in the air. You'll also hear that Oxford is celebrating another clear CARF Accreditation, and was named as part of the top 3% of recommended facilities, going 22 years strong!Learn more about Industrial Rehab/ Work Conditioning/ Hardening here: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/functional-capacity-evaluationsDid you know that you don't need a doctor's prescription to receive physical therapy? The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Découvrez le roman épistolaire "Petites recettes de bonheur pour les temps difficiles" de Susanne Hayes et Loretta Nyhan

Lorcan Nyhan, Head Of Training at The Communications Clinic, takes a look at the state of US politics.

This episode features discussions with high-achiever Alex Nyhan, CEO of First Washington Realty, and a reflective journey of personal growth beyond material achievements. Alex shares his expansive experience in real estate, discussing his company's strategies, leadership, and dissecting the term work-life balance. The narrative shifts to exploring the quest for fulfillment beyond success, highlighting the importance of understanding one's motives, the impact of childhood influences, and the anticipation of continued learning and growth. This blend of professional insights and personal enlightenment offers a holistic view on achieving success while fostering mindfulness and purpose.00:00 Welcome to the Matthews Mentality Podcast Live from ICSC00:20 Spotlight on Alex Nyhan: A Real Estate Investment Titan01:14 First Washington Realty: Strategy and Portfolio Insights02:39 The Power of People and Growth in Business04:51 Navigating Challenges and Building a Legacy in Real Estate14:00 Personal Insights: From Musician to CEO19:10 The Journey from Georgetown to Harvard Business School31:11 Embracing Challenges and Learning at Harvard33:47 The Graduate School Experience: A Foundation for Success34:35 From Graduate to Government: Navigating Real Estate in D.C.38:24 Private Sector Transition: The Forest City Chapter43:23 Embracing Ownership: The Leap to First Washington Realty45:45 Leadership and Succession: Shaping the Future of First Washington47:29 Personal Growth and Family Life: The CEO's Journey49:20 Balancing Professional Ambitions with Personal Life51:21 Music and Self-Improvement: Unconventional Paths to Personal Growth52:50 Success Traits and Future Visions: Insights from a CEO01:03:26 Reflections on Development, Success, and the Importance of Needs over Wants

Our Carrier Connections program features a different X-linked condition each month with the goal to increase awareness of X-linked conditions and how they impact the lives of women and girls. This month, we are featuring Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS). LNS is an X-linked disorder caused by a mutation in the gene, HPRT1, which plays a critical role in the body's ability to process purines. With the recycling of purines involved in the production of uric acid, this deficiency or complete lack of function in the HPRT1 gene in individuals with LNS results in excess amounts of uric acid in the body. This buildup of uric acid has many toxic effects on the body, contributing to a variety of neurological and behavioral issues. Perhaps most notably, individuals with LNS suffer from self-mutilative behaviors that tend to manifest around the age of two or three. Today, we are bringing on Gaby Ponce. Gaby Ponce is from Mexico and mother to Antonio, who has Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. She is the director of the Fundación Amor y Fuerz Lesch Nyhan. The foundation supports 11 families here in Mexico and helps them access medication, rehab therapy online, checkups every six months with a nephrologist and neurologist, dental extraction surgeries, wheelchairs, and more. They work with Love Never Sinks in the United States and Lesch Nyhan Action in France to advocate for a gene therapy treatment. Carrier Connections is sponsored by Horizon Therapeutics, Sanofi, and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical. For more information about our organization, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rememberthegirls.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Our Carrier Connections program features a different X-linked condition each month with the goal to increase awareness of X-linked conditions and how they impact the lives of women and girls. This month, we are featuring Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS). LNS is an X-linked disorder caused by a mutation in the gene, HPRT1, which plays a critical role in the body's ability to process purines. With the recycling of purines involved in the production of uric acid, this deficiency or complete lack of function in the HPRT1 gene in individuals with LNS results in excess amounts of uric acid in the body. This buildup of uric acid has many toxic effects on the body, contributing to a variety of neurological and behavioral issues. Perhaps most notably, individuals with LNS suffer from self-mutilative behaviors that tend to manifest around the age of two or three. Today, we are bringing on Michelle Lucas. Michelle Lucas is a 51-year-old carrier of LNS. She has been married for 26 years (27 on the 25th of this month) and has two sons with LNS, who passed away in 2010 (Daniel, age 14 & Keith, age 20). She loves to spend time with her husband and their two Saint Bernard's. She founded the nonprofit organization Love Never Sinks and served as the CEO from 2013-2021. She continues to advocate for others with LNS, trying to bring awareness, togetherness, and hopefully one day, a treatment. Carrier Connections is sponsored by Horizon Therapeutics, Sanofi, and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical. For more information about our organization, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠rememberthegirls.org⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this episode of Tech Sales Insights, Randy Seidl in an insightful conversation with Jim Nyhan, Director of America's Enterprise Sales at Cyber Proof, discussing the shift from selling individual products to integrated platforms in managed cyber services for enterprise clients. Jim shares his journey, emphasizing the importance of an ecosystem approach, addressing challenges in the tech sector, and highlighting the crucial role of customer-centricity in building lasting partnerships. KEY TAKEAWAYSTransition to Platform Approach: In a tightening tech economy, platforms supersede individual products as enterprises seek consolidation and value from integrated solutions.Ecosystem Advantage: Larger players leverage ecosystem partnerships, offering enterprise licensing agreements and consumption models, presenting an edge over niche point products.Customer-Centric Culture: Upholding an egoless, customer-focused culture fosters trust, longevity, and mutually beneficial relationships.CFO Collaboration: Engaging CFOs becomes pivotal in navigating tech stacks, as enterprises grapple with integrating numerous SaaS platforms.QUOTES"If you bring high integrity, value, and do what you said at the price you said, you've built a great customer relationship.""In defense of founders, they often have their own capital at stake, but minimizing internal politics and maximizing customer focus defines successful company culture.""Platform will trump product, especially during economic headwinds, as enterprises seek consolidation and value from integrated solutions."Find out more about Jim Nyhan through the links below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-nyhan-696668/This episode of Tech Sales Insights is brought to you by: Sales Community: https://www.salescommunity.com/Sandler: https://www.sandler.com/

Cognism Growth Adviser, Gaetano DiNardi is joined by Head of Growth at Workvivo, Barry Nyhan to discuss the buyer journey. Specifically, how the traditional AIDA model is no longer reflective of how modern buyers actually behave.

Cognism Growth Adviser, Gaetano DiNardi is joined by Head of Growth at Workvivo, Barry Nyhan to discuss the buyer journey. Specifically, how the traditional AIDA model is no longer reflective of how modern buyers actually behave.

The first Tuesday of each month WKXL teams up with the New Hampshire Insurance Department to share the story of their service to Granite Staters. In today's segment the Department's Director of Consumer Services, Keith Nyhan, explained the units of the N.H.I.D. which he oversees. Also, Scott Spradling of the Spradling Group gave us an update on a very special raffle being held by “Swim With a Mission”. The prize is an authentic 2003 New England Patriots Super Bowl championship ring valued at $70,000.00. All proceeds will go the the charity's mission to help veterans and their families. To enter the drawing, the website is www.swam.org

For the final podcast episode of 2022, Barry is joined by Rásaíocht Con Éireann / Greyhound Racing Ireland Chairman, Frank Nyhan. Frank recaps on what has been a fantastic year for Greyhound Racing in Ireland as crowds returned in all their glory post-restrictions and enjoyed our big events and superb racing. He also touches on some of the other big news in our sport and industry throughout the year. Have a listen now to their chat, and don't forget you can also read Frank's chairman's Christmas address on Talking Dogs on http://bit.ly/3WxEmUq

In this week's episode of Politics In Question, Julia and Lee join Brendan Nyhan, Lilliana Mason, Aziz Huq, and Jennifer Victor to discuss how America's system of winner-take-all congressional districts exacerbates the challenges its democracy faces. Nyhan is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College. Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. And Victor is an associate professor of political science at George Mason University's Schar School Policy and Government.

Kate holds a Bachelor of Arts, with a Major in Global Sustainable Development and International Relations, and a Masters of International Development Practice. She currently works at ADRA as an International Programs Assistant working with managers and International Programs director working on projects in Africa, South East Asia, and the Pacific focusing on livelihoods, health, education, and disaster risk reduction. In this episode of Mission Unplugged, Emily chats with Kate about the journey it took to get to the work she's doing now, currents and changes in the world of international development, and the work of ADRA. You can connect with Kate at https://www.linkedin.com/in/katenyhan And find out more about Adra at https://www.adra.org.au/ Safe Water September is on now, raising funds for life-changing safe water projects in Zimbabwe, Vanuatu, and Bangladesh. Give now to transform lives through safe water. http://safewaterseptember.org.au -- Join the conversation: http://embody.org.au/discord Follow us: http://facebook.com/embodyau http://instagram.com/embodyau http://tiktok.com/@embodyau Credits: Our theme music is 'Overboard (Instrumental)' by Josh Woodward, http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward Used under Creative Commons. We respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands and waters of Australia, and pay respects to elders past and present. We recognise their continuing connections to land, waters, and culture.

Brendan Nyhan is a presidential professor at Dartmouth College's department of government. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion that pushes back on the notion that social media is destroying our society and making us stupid. With this thoughtful analysis, Nyhan adds a bunch of nuance to the discussion. This episode is effectively pt. 2 of our conversation with Prof. Jonathan Haidt a few weeks back. While Haidt believes social media is breaking our society and threatening democracy, Nyhan says hold up just a second. By the way, here's a new thing I did: For a behind-the-scenes look into some of my research for this episode, you check out my Pocket Collection (which is filled with the links) at: getpocket.com/bigtechnology

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13 de junio | Nueva YorkLeer esta newsletter te llevará 12 minutos y 8 segundos.📬 Mantente informado con nuestras columnas de actualidad diarias. Tienes un ejemplo en este boletín que enviamos el pasado miércoles sobre la derrota del fiscal del distrito de San Francisco Chesa Boudin y lo que ello significa para el futuro del movimiento reformista del sistema de justicia criminal. Puedes suscribirte a través de este enlace:Maldito ladrón. Bienvenido a La Wikly.📱 No tan fácilLo importante: el auge de las redes sociales ha redibujado el panorama social, cultural y político de todas las sociedades del planeta, pero desde hace años impera una narrativa de casi absoluto consenso que concluye que las redes sociales tienen efectos negativos sobre las democracias.Ahí está el ascenso de los populismos, la crisis de salud mental entre jóvenes o la forma en la que el contenido de odio puede propagarse a una rapidez y escala impensables hace años.Explícamelo: en los últimos meses, dos ensayos publicados en The Atlantic y en The New Yorker han reavivado el debate acerca de si realmente las plataformas han tenido consecuencias tan nocivas.Aunque las conclusiones son dispares, los argumentos que esgrimen presentan enfoques interesantes ante el que será un debate que se seguirá dando durante años.Y además permiten desmontar algunas teorías muy establecidas sobre cómo las redes sociales han afectado al mundo real.📜 Reconstrucción históricaContexto: podría decirse que el punto culminante del optimismo tecnodemocrático sobre el aumento de popularidad de las redes sociales fue en 2011, el año que comenzó con la Primavera Árabe y terminó con el movimiento Occupy Global, según cuenta el psicólogo social Jonathan Haidt en su ensayo.También fue entonces cuando Google Translate empezó a estar disponible en prácticamente todos los teléfonos. Con la supresión de la barrera idiomática y la galopante globalización, estábamos más cerca que nunca de ser un solo pueblo.En el cambio de década, los usuarios de las redes sociales se sintieron más cómodos compartiendo detalles íntimos de sus vidas con extraños y con grandes corporaciones; se volvieron más expertos en administrar su marca personal a través de las redes —y tener éxito con esa marca personal.Es decir, los usuarios empezaban a saber qué foto tendría más me gusta o qué comentario tendría más retuits. La adaptación a ese nuevo statu quo desencadenó lo que Haidt define como la intensificación de las dinámicas virales.Llegado 2013, las redes sociales se habían convertido en un nuevo juego: si tenías habilidad o suerte, podías crear una publicación que capaz de viralizarse y hacerte famoso en Internet por unos días. Si cometías un error, podías terminar enterrado en comentarios de odio.El optimismo de 2011 empezó a decaer y empezó a encontrar conclusiones más apocalípticas conforme distintos escándalos ensombrecieron el crecimiento y las posibilidades de plataformas como Facebook, YouTube o Twitter.En la actualidad, los científicos sociales han identificado al menos tres fuerzas principales que unen colectivamente a las democracias exitosas: capital social (extensas redes de vínculos sociales con altos niveles de confianza), instituciones sólidas e historias compartidas.Según Haidt, las redes sociales habrían debilitado a las tres.🔬 El debate científicoHaidt representa el sector académico que defiende una visión pesimista de las redes sociales. Cree que las herramientas de la viralidad han corroído algorítmica e irrevocablemente la vida pública.El auge de las redes sociales ha “disuelto sin darse cuenta el mortero de la confianza, la creencia en las instituciones y las historias compartidas que habían mantenido unida a una democracia secular grande y diversa”, dice Haidt.La principal preocupación de Haidt es que el uso de las redes sociales nos ha dejado particularmente vulnerables al sesgo de confirmación. Es decir, la propensión a consumir e interiorizar el contenido que apuntala nuestras creencias previas.Esto lo llevó en 2021 a ser el coprotagonista de una iniciativa experimental de investigación colaborativa sobre el efecto de las redes sociales de internet que proponía reunir estudios sobre su impacto en la sociedad.El Google Doc “Redes sociales y disfuncionalidad política: una revisión colaborativa” se puso a disposición del público y acumuló comentarios con miles de estudios y fuentes de lo más diversas (desde artículos de revistas especializadas hasta hilos en Twitter y ensayos de Substack).El documento tiene más de 150 páginas y para cada pregunta hay estudios afirmativos y disidentes, así como algunos con resultados mixtos.La puesta en común de investigaciones específicas sobre los efectos de las redes sociales reveló, entre otras cosas, que tres de las preocupaciones más arraigadas podrían no ser tan graves como parece. El periodista Gideon Lewis-Kraus las mencionó en su artículo para The New Yorker:Las cámaras de eco, focos de sesgo de confirmación, se evidenciarían más en los vínculos que establecemos en la vida real que en las redes sociales, donde estamos expuestos a una gama más amplia de puntos de vista.Las fake news tampoco llegarían a tanta gente como se ha dicho. Es posible que un número muy pequeño de personas consuman noticias falsas de forma habitual. Y si lo hacen, suelen no creérselas.Los agujeros de conejo de plataformas como YouTube, esos por los que las recomendaciones algorítmicas habrían radicalizado a millones de personas mostrándoles contenido cada vez más extremista, se podría haber exagerado.“Estas son las tres historias: cámaras de eco, campañas de influencia extranjera y algoritmos de recomendación radicalizados. Pero, cuando miras la literatura, todas han sido exageradas”, sostiene Brendan Nyhan, politólogo de Dartmouth.Un documento de trabajo dirigido por Nyhan encontró que, contrario a lo que muchos preferirían pensar, existen razones de peso para creer que hay muchas personas buscando deliberadamente contenido de odio. Es decir, que el núcleo del problema no es la radicalización algorítmica, sino algo mucho más complejo.Nyhan pensó que asimilar estos hallazgos es crucial, aunque solo sea para ayudarnos a comprender que nuestros problemas pueden estar más allá de ajustes tecnocráticos.“Muchas de las críticas que se les hacen [a las redes sociales] están muy mal fundadas [...] La expansión del acceso a Internet coincide con otras 15 tendencias a lo largo del tiempo, y es muy difícil separarlas. La falta de buenos datos es un gran problema en la medida en que permite a las personas proyectar sus propios temores en este área”, sostiene Nyhan.🔮 ¿Y entonces?Ante esta postura más moderada sobre cuál debería ser la respuesta ante los efectos que parecen producir las redes sociales, Haidt defiende que las condiciones son demasiado terribles como para adoptar una visión realista:“La preponderancia de la evidencia es lo que usamos en salud pública. Si hay una epidemia, como cuando empezó el COVID, supongamos que todos los científicos hubieran dicho, 'No, ¿tenemos que estar seguros antes de hacer algo?'. [...] Tenemos la mayor epidemia de salud mental entre adolescentes de la historia y no hay otra explicación [que el auge de las redes sociales]. Es una epidemia de salud pública atroz, y los propios niños dicen que es cosa de Instagram, y tenemos algunas pruebas de ello, entonces, ¿es apropiado decir, 'Nah, no lo has demostrado'?".El argumento no es infundado. De hecho, como analizamos en esta entrega, investigaciones internas de Facebook revelaron datos como que el 32 por ciento de las adolescentes dicen que, si se sienten mal con sus cuerpos, Instagram hace que se sientan peor.Con el agravante de que las compañías que administran la plataforma de Meta minimizan constantemente en público sus efectos negativos entre adolescentes.El sociólogo Chris Bail, que orquestó junto a Haidt la propuesta de investigación colaborativa, rescata un apunte que contribuye a darle complejidad al fenómeno global de las redes sociales.Para ello, cita dos investigaciones que se propusieron inferir las diferencias entre un grupo A, con perfiles activos en Facebook, y un grupo B, con sus perfiles en la plataforma desactivados, durante las cuatro semanas previas a unas elecciones. Una se realizó en Estados Unidos; la otra, en Bosnia y Herzegovina.Los resultados de las investigaciones fueron diametralmente opuestos.En su newsletter Platformer, el periodista Casey Newton aboga por esperar a la publicación de más estudios antes de sacar conclusiones definitivas o legislar muy en lo concreto. Cabe pensar que una ley que pretenda regular funcionalidades como las recomendaciones algorítmicas puede no tener las consecuencias deseadas y además atente contra la innovación.Aunque bien es cierto que las redes sociales están muy poco reguladas, especialmente en países como Estados Unidos.Ni qué decir que si eres un pesimista como Haidt, entonces la lucha por el futuro de las democracias se está batallando ahora mismo, así que habría que tomar medidas cuanto antes.Quizá la mejor conclusión la dejaba el investigador Matthew Gentzkow en una cita para el artículo de The New Yorker:“Hay muchas preguntas aquí donde la cosa en la que estamos interesados como investigadores es en cómo las redes sociales afectan a la persona promedio. Hay una serie diferente de preguntas donde todo lo que necesitas es que un número pequeño de personas cambie —preguntas sobre violencia étnica en Bangladesh o Sri Lanka, gente en YouTube movilizada para llevar a cabo tiroteos masivos. Mucha de la evidencia generalmente me hacer ser escéptico con que los efectos medios sean tan grandes como la discusión pública piensa que son, pero también creo que hay casos en los que un número pequeño de personas con perspectivas muy extremistas son capaces de encontrarse entre ellos y conectar y actuar. […] Ahí es donde residen muchas de las peores cosas de las que estaría más preocupado”.Así que sí, probablemente las redes sociales han tenido consecuencias negativas sobre la sociedad y sobre las democracias. Y sí, probablemente todos hayamos exagerado los efectos nocivos de algunas particularidades muy concretas de las plataformas. Pero lo que está claro es que:Necesitamos más estudios acerca de los efectos de las redes sociales en la sociedad.Las compañías deberían dejar a los investigadores tener más acceso a sus datos.Hay daños que sí se han demostrado y tanto legisladores como plataformas deberían actuar cuanto antes para atajarlos.¿Desea saber más? Los dos ensayos son lectura muy, muy recomendada. Este otro artículo del Council of Foreign Relations indaga en una crítica habitual a Haidt y sus conclusiones pesimistas: “Las redes sociales no nos han cambiado de forma fundamental, solo nos han permitido ser nosotros mismos. Han dado forma y color a la última erupción de nuestros lados más oscuros, que siempre estuvieron ahí, esperando a venir a la superficie de nuevo tal y como han hecho repetidamente cada pocas generaciones por razones y en un calendario que sigue siendo confuso”.🎬 Una recomendaciónCon la colaboración de FilminBy Emilio DoménechFeels Good Man es una película documental estadounidense de 2020 dirigida por Arthur Jones. Cuenta los inicios de la rana Pepe, convertida ahora en uno de los mayores memes de toda la historia de internet lejos de las manos de su creador original.La película invierte gran parte de su duración en explorar el uso que la extrema derecha online hizo del meme para propagar mensajes de odio.Es difícil encontrar documentales que hablen de internet de una forma elocuente y que al mismo tiempo se sientan significativos o incluso trascendentales. Feels Good Man, pese a no ser perfecto, encapsula a la perfección muchas de las corrientes que influencian la convivencia online y el impacto que la viralidad tiene en el mundo real.Además, ilustra con inteligencia y empatía la forma en la que el arte puede ser corrompido —y pese a los esfuerzos del artista por impedirlo.No conozco ningún otro ejemplo de un documental que haga un trabajo parecido a la hora de traducir la cultura de los memes para todos los públicos, así que Feels Good Man sin duda es una buena oportunidad para espectadores algo desconectados de lo que pasa en cavernas como 4chan.Los muy leídos en el tema también encontrarán gratas recompensas acerca de la historia de Pepe, por cierto un habitual de los emojis de nuestra comunidad de Discord y de mis streams.Feels Good Man está disponible en Filmin.🤳 Una plataforma realistaBy Marina EnrichLo importante: Hace meses que BeReal se ha convertido en la app por excelencia de la generación Z. Emilio no os ha hablado de ella, y yo, que la uso diariamente, me he sentido obligada a explicaros de qué va y por qué tiene tanto éxito.Contexto: BeReal es una App fundada por el francés Alexis Barreyat y que no tiene nada que ver con ninguna red social actual. Cómo funciona. En un momento aleatorio del día te saltará una notificación al móvil diciendo: “Es la hora de BeReal” para que subas una foto. A todo el mundo le llega la notificación a la misma hora. Hasta que no subas tu foto, no puedes ver la de tus amigos. La foto se capturará a la vez con la cámara frontal y trasera. Al día siguiente, todas las fotos habrán desaparecido.Lo más importante: Es una app antipostureo. No tiene filtros. No puedes falsear la realidad. Menos yo este fin de semana, que he esperado a estar en el festival Primavera Sound para subir mi BeReal (son las dos fotos que encabezan esta sección).Eso sí, BeReal no me ha dejado engañar a mis amigos. Al lado de mi foto, ponía que la he subido 5 horas más tarde, siendo así menos real.Por lo general, las fotos que subo cada día a la aplicación son trabajando en mi ordenador, igual que la mayoría de mis amigos. Puede parecer aburrido, pero para mí es un respiro ver a gente que no se pasa el día viajando, tomando el sol y haciendo deporte.¿Pasará de moda? Pues igual. Aunque la verdad es que esta aplicación responde a una tendencia general entre la generación Z de querer compartir contenido más auténtico (lo vimos con los finstas, esos instagrams privados que creas solo para tus amigos).El interés de esta generación por TikTok tampoco es aleatorio. La aplicación china acuna contenido mucho más auténtico y natural que Instagram, y esa es la razón por la que, en general, nos gusta más.Lo mejor. BeReal no crea adicción. Mientras que Facebook, Instagram y TikTok viven de la economía de la atención, intentando retener a sus usuarios la mayor cantidad de tiempo, BeReal es todo lo contrario. Una vez subes tu foto y ves la de tus amigos, la aplicación pierde el interés. Hasta el día siguiente.Lo interesante: ver cómo monetizan la app. Han recaudado 30 millones de dólares tras una ronda de financiación de la firma de capital de riesgo Andreessen Horowitz, por lo que algún cambio tendrán que hacer.Esperamos que se mantengan reales a su premisa original, je.En otro orden de cosas, hoy vuelve Lunes por el mundo con los resultados electorales en las legislativas de Francia y la crisis de hambruna en Somalia, entre otros titulares. Anita os hablará de la Cumbre de las Américas en la entrega premium del martes.Podrás seguir el directo a partir de las 20:00 hora peninsular de España en Twitch.Feliz semana, This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.lawikly.com/subscribe

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter exploring the relationship between technology and culture. This is what counts as a relatively short post around here, 1800 words or so, about a certain habit of mind that online spaces seem to foster. Almost one year ago, this exchange on Twitter caught my attention, enough so that I took a moment to capture it with a screen shot, thinking I’d go on to write about it at some point. Set aside for a moment whatever your particular thoughts might be on the public debate, if we can call it that, over vaccines, vaccine messaging, vaccine mandates, etc. Instead, consider the form of the claim, specifically the “anti-anti-” framing. I think I first noticed this peculiar way of talking about (or around) an issue circa 2016. In 2020, contemplating the same dynamics, I observed that “social media, perhaps Twitter especially, accelerates both the rate at which we consume information and the rate at which ensuing discussion detaches from the issue at hand, turning into meta-debates about how we respond to the responses of others, etc.” So by the time the Nyhan quote-tweeted Rosen last summer, the “anti-anti-” framing, to my mind, had already entered its mannerist phase. The use of “anti-anti-ad infinitum” is easy to spot, and I’m sure you’ve seen the phrasing deployed on numerous occasions. But the overt use of the “anti-anti-” formulation is just the most obvious manifestation of a more common style of thought, one that I’ve come to refer to as meta-positioning. In the meta-positioning frame of mind, thinking and judgment are displaced by a complex, ever-shifting, and often fraught triangulation based on who holds certain views and how one might be perceived for advocating or failing to advocate for certain views. In one sense, this is not a terribly complex or particularly novel dynamic. Our pursuit of understanding is often an uneasy admixture of the desire to know and the desire to be known as one who knows by those we admire. Unfortunately, social media probably tips the scale in favor of the desire for approval given its rapid fire feedback mechanisms. Earlier this month, Kevin Baker commented on this same tendency in a recent thread that opened with the following observation, “A lot of irritating, mostly vapid people and ideas were able to build huge followings in 2010s because the people criticizing them were even worse.” Baker goes on to call this “the decade of being anti-anti-” and explains that he felt like he spent “the better part of the decade being enrolled into political and discursive projects that I had serious reservations about because I disagreed [with] their critics more and because I found their behavior reprehensible.” In his view, this is a symptom of the unchecked expansion of the culture wars. Baker again: “This isn't censorship. There weren't really censors. It's more a structural consequence of what happens when an issue gets metabolized by the culture war. There are only two sides and you just have to pick the least bad one.” I’m sympathetic to this view, and would only add that perhaps it is more specifically a symptom of what happens when the digitized culture wars colonize ever greater swaths of our experience. I argued a couple of years ago that just as industrialization gave us industrial warfare, so digitization has given us digitized culture warfare. My argument was pretty straightforward: “Digital media has dramatically enhanced the speed, scale, and power of the tools by which the culture wars are waged and thus transformed their norms, tactics, strategies, psychology, and consequences.” Take a look at the piece if you missed it. I’d say, too, that the meta-positioning habit of mind might also be explained as a consequence of the digitally re-enchanted discursive field. I won’t bog down this post, which I’m hoping to keep relatively brief, with the details of that argument, but here’s the most relevant bit:For my purposes, I’m especially interested in the way that philosopher Charles Taylor incorporates disenchantment theory into his account of modern selfhood. The enchanted world, in Taylor’s view, yielded the experience of a porous, and thus vulnerable self. The disenchanted world yielded an experience of a buffered self, which was sealed off, as the term implies, from beneficent and malignant forces beyond its ken. The porous self depended upon the liturgical and ritual health of the social body for protection against such forces. Heresy was not merely an intellectual problem, but a ritual problem that compromised what we might think of, in these times, as herd immunity to magical and spiritual forces by introducing a dangerous contagion into the social body. The answer to this was not simply reasoned debate but expulsion or perhaps a fiery purgation.Under digitally re-enchanted conditions, policing the bounds of the community appears to overshadow the value of ostensibly objective, civil discourse. In other words, meta-positioning, from this perspective, might just a matter of making sure you are always playing for the right team, or at least not perceived to be playing for the wrong one. It’s not so much that we have something to say but that we have a social space we want to be seen to occupy. But as I thought about the meta-positioning habit of mind recently, another related set of considerations came to mind, one that is also connected to the digital media ecosystem. As a point of departure, I’d invite you to consider a recent post from Venkatesh Rao about “crisis mindsets.” “As the world has gotten more crisis prone at all levels from personal to geopolitical in the last few years,” Rao explained, “the importance of consciously cultivating a more effective crisis mindset has been increasingly sinking in for me.” I commend the whole post to you, it offers a series of wise and humane observations about how we navigate crisis situations. Rao’s essay crossed my feed while I was drafting this post about meta-positioning, and these lines near the end of the essay caught my attention: “We seem to be entering a historical period where crisis circumstances are more common than normalcy. This means crisis mindsets will increasingly be the default, not flourishing mindsets.”I think this is right, but it also has a curious relationship to the digital media ecosystem. I can imagine someone arguing that genuine crisis circumstances are no more common now than they have ever been but that digital media feeds heighten our awareness of all that is broken in the world and also inaccurately create a sense of ambient crisis. This argument is not altogether wrong. In the digital media ecosystem, we are enveloped by an unprecedented field of near-constant information emanating from the world far and near, and the dynamics of the attention economy also encourage the generation of ambient crisis. But two things can both be true at the same time. It is true, I think, that we are living through a period during which crisis circumstances have become more frequent. This is, in part, because the structures, both social and technological, of the modern world do appear increasingly fragile if not wholly decrepit. It is also true that our media ecosystem heightens our awareness of these crisis circumstances (generating, in turn, a further crisis of the psyche) and that it also generates a field of faux crisis circumstances. Consequently, learning to distinguish between a genuine crisis and a faux crisis will certainly be an essential skill. I would add that it is also critical to distinguish among the array of genuine crisis circumstances that we encounter. Clearly, some will bear directly and unambiguously upon us—a health crisis, say, or a weather emergency. Others will bear on us less directly or acutely, and others still will not bear on us at all. Furthermore, there are those we will be able to address meaningfully through our actions and those we cannot. We should, therefore, learn to apportion our attention and our labors wisely and judiciously. But let’s come back to the habit of mind with which we began. If we are, in fact, inhabiting a media ecosystem that, through sheer scale and ubiquity, heightens our awareness of all that is wrong with the world and overwhelms pre-digital habits of sense-making and crisis-management, then meta-positioning might be more charitably framed as a survival mechanism. As Rao noted, “I have realized there is no such thing as being individually good or bad in a crisis. Humans either deal with crises in effective groups, or not at all.” Just as digital re-enchantment retrieves the communal instinct, so too, perhaps, does the perma-crisis mindset. Recalling, Baker’s analysis, we might even say that the digitized culture war layered over the crisis circumstances intensifies the stigma of breaking ranks. There’s one last perspective I’d like to offer on the meta-positioning habit of mind. It also seems to suggest something like a lack of grounding or a certain aimlessness. There is a picture that is informing my thinking here. It is the picture of being adrift in the middle of the ocean with no way to get our bearings. Under these circumstances the best we can ever do is navigate away from some imminent danger, but we can never purposefully aim at a destination. So we find ourselves adrift in the vast digital ocean, and we have no idea what we are doing there or what we should be doing. All we know is that we are caught up in wave after wave of the discourse and the best we can do is to make sure we steer clear of obvious perils and keep our seat on whatever raft we find ourselves in, which may be in shambles but, nonetheless, affords us the best chance of staying afloat. So, maybe the meta-positioning habit of mind is what happens when I have clearer sense of what I am against than what I am for. Or maybe it is better to say that meta-positioning is what happens when we lack meaningful degrees of agency and are instead offered the simulacra of action in digitally mediated spheres, which generally means saying things about things and about the things other people are saying about the things—the “internet of beefs,” as Rao memorably called it. The best we can do is survive the beefs by making sure we’re properly aligned. To give it yet another turn, perhaps the digital sea through which we navigate takes the form of a whirlpool sucking us into the present. The whirlpool is a temporal maelstrom, keeping us focused on immediate circumstances, unable to distinguish, without sufficient perspective, between the genuine and the faux crisis. Under such circumstances, we lack what Alan Jacobs, borrowing the phrase from novelist Thomas Pynchon, has called “temporal bandwidth.” In Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), a character explains the concept: “temporal bandwidth is the width of your present, your now … The more you dwell in the past and future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.” Paradoxically, then, the more focused we are on the present, the less of a grip we’re able to get on it. As Jacobs notes, the same character went on to say, “It may get to where you’re having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago.” Indeed, so. Jacobs recommends extending our temporal bandwidth through a deliberate engagement with the past through our reading as well as a deliberate effort to bring the more distant future into our reckoning. As the philosopher Hans Jonas, whom Jacobs cites, encouraged us to ask, “What force shall represent the future in the present?” The point is that we must make an effort to wrest our gaze away from the temporal maelstrom, and to do so not only in the moment but as a matter of sustained counter-practice. Perhaps then we’ll be better equipped to avoid the meta-positioning habit of mind, which undoubtedly constrains our ability to think clearly, and to find better ways of navigating the choppy, uncertain waters before us. Get full access to The Convivial Society at theconvivialsociety.substack.com/subscribe

This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Brendan Nyhan, a professor of political science at Dartmouth University. We talk a lot about the crisis of falsehoods circulating online, but Nyhan's work focuses on empirical research on what the effects of disinformation and misinformation actually are. And he's found that those effects might play less of a role in political discourse than you'd think—or at least not quite in the way you might think. They talked about the fake news about fake news and the echo chamber about echo chambers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dartmouth professor Brendan J. Nyhan looks at polls showing Americans endorse violence and says those findings are off. But there's still a lot to worry about. And in the Spiel, a troubling but little-remarked-upon argument made in the Derek Chauvin defense resurfaces in the Federal trial of former Minneapolis Police Officers. Podcast production by Joel Patterson Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How are partisan identity and misinformation connected? Sam Wang is joined by Brendan Nyhan to discuss misinformation, partisan identity, and the stability of America's democratic norms. Nyhan is a professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. He is a researcher on politics, polarization, and healthcare, with an emphasis on false beliefs. He's also a contributor to the Upshot from The New York Times and the co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a group that monitors the health of American democracy.

How are partisan identity and misinformation connected? Sam Wang is joined by Brendan Nyhan to discuss misinformation, partisan identity, and the stability of America's democratic norms. Nyhan is a professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. He is a researcher on politics, polarization, and healthcare, with an emphasis on false beliefs. He's also a contributor to the Upshot from The New York Times and the co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a group that monitors the health of American democracy.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We start the show by opening phone lines, talking with listeners about Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WI) ouster from GOP leadership. Jonathan Gruber weighs in on whether the U.S. should implement a value-added tax to help fund President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT. He was instrumental in creating both the Massachusetts health-care reform and the Affordable Care Act, and his latest book is "Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth And The American Dream." Juliette Kayyem discusses the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline, and explained how ransomware attacks on private companies are on the rise. She also talks about the crash of a Chinese rocket in the Indian Ocean, and the potential for more space debris and rocket parts to fall to earth. Kayyem is an analyst for CNN, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Art Caplan shares his thoughts on the possibility of school COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and an increase in Americans on diets. Caplan is director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University School of Medicine. Chuck Wexler explains the nationwide decline in police applicants, and discusses changes in police training over the last few decades. Wexler is the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and a former member of the Boston Police Department. Brendan Nyhan talks about his research into misinformation, emphasizing the role digital technology has played in accelerating the spread of misinformation. Nyhan is a professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, and the co-founder of Bright Line Watch, which monitors practices of and threats to American democracy. We end the show by asking listeners what they thought about Apple’s new AirTag tracking devices.

"A fourth separation of powers shall be incorporated in every system of government for the independent feedback of results through a Resulture or Feedback Branch of Government."You might imagine that for all the debate at the heart of government, there might be some function to check up on the outcomes of these debates. And in some cases there is. In many, even in most cases - nothing. Maybe a profit and loss account to show value for money - but with regards to the actual purpose of all the laws and policies and programmes, answering the question of whether they have achieved their aims - there is no structure in place to make sure this happens, and so mostly they become atrophy and waste, pointlessly clogging up the system and pointlessly exhausting tax-payer's money. Would a business survive these conditions? In this episode we start with Montesquieu's idea of checks and balances behind the separation of powers, explore its reality in the UK's political system, and think about what effective feedback might mean for this system.Talking points:The Separation of powers from MontesquieuThe centralised nature of these powers and opportunities to respondSystems Thinking, Cybernetics: responding to realityThe political class - unaccountable and uninformedWastageBusiness as a model for government and its limitsFeedback on Social PurposeMyths and perceived credibility about the centreBroadband now and the 1984 privatisation of BTCybernetic feedback as non-political: Something just happens.Law-making - spectacle vs valueMessianic transformation vs gradual improvementDiversity of perspective, Design Authorities and purpose - safety, reliability and performanceFailure enquiries - no politics, no blaming and the origins in the Victorian rail system...and the Global Financial CrisisA mechanism to take feedback decisions out of politicsThe contradiction at the heart of politicsExisting feedback institutions, their limits and potentialAbandonment powers for laws that don't workThe cost would be a fraction of the benefitThe building of a body of knowledge about specific circumstancesLinks:The god-like power of the feedback loop (1 hr BBC 4 film of Jim Al Khalili on The Secret Life of Chaos):https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv1j0nMathematics, complex systems and small changes (5 minute clip from above):https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0060b2cOn the separation of powers: origins in Montesquieu and Aristotle:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powersIn Our Time - Montesquieu (podcast - 50 mins)https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5qnfxList of supreme audit institutions :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_audit_institutionUK's National Audit Office:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Audit_Office_(United_Kingdom)Reading List:Schumpeter, Joseph (1976) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, George Allen and UnwinDrucker, Peter (Number 14, Winter 1969) The Sickness of Government, The Public InterestFriedman, Mark (2005) Trying Hard Is Not Good Enough: How to Produce Measurable Improvements for Customers and Communities, Fiscal Policy Studies InstituteStraw, E. 2014. Stand & Deliver: A Design for Successful Government. London: Treaty for Government.Fazey, I. Schäpke, N., Caniglia, G., Patterson, J., Hultman, J., Van Mierlo, B., Säwe F., et al. 2018. Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research. Energy Research & Social Science 40: 54–70.Schwartz, D. 2017. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. New York: Basic Books.Furubo, Jan-Eric and Nicoletta Stame, eds. 2018. The Evaluation Enterprise: A Critical View. Aldershot: Routledge.Guilfoyle, Simon. 2016. Kittens Are Evil: Little Heresies in Public Policy. Axminster: Triarchy Press.Nyhan, B. and J. Reif ler. 2018. The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties: 1–23.Rosling, Hans with O.Rosling and A. Rosling Ronnlund. 2018. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think. New York: Flatiron BooksForss K, Marra, M., and Schwartz, R., eds. 2011. Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution and Beyond. Comparative Policy Evaluation, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.Extract 1:PROGRESS is a radically different model of school accountability. It explores what might be learned from the history of Antidote – an organisation set up to foster more emotionally supportive school environments – to inform the development of such a model. It starts with pupil, staff, and parent surveys to describe their experience of the school, using the data that emerges to have conversations with each other to develop an explanation about what it means and a strategy for improvement. Every school should engage in this sort of process every year. League tables of public examination results are too blunt an instrument, and unlike the PROGRESS process do not stimulate solutions as well as highlight problems. Independent surveying and confidential reporting averts the syndrome of the untouchable but largely ineffective head teacher. All government agencies should find out how their stakeholders experience them and be held to account for responding to the findings. Board members would then have the judgment of the people and organisations they are there for and not airbrushed data from management in the annual review. - 22 Park, James. 2018. Turning the tide on ‘coercive autonomy': Learning from the antidote story. Forum 60(3): 387–396. http: //doi .org/ 10.15 730/f orum. 2018. 60.3. 387.Extract 2: Rework was the term used in manufacturing for all the parts of an assembly not made to specification, which post quality control were then sent back for further machining to get right. The cost in time, money and organisational complexity was high. This was a bane of ‘old world' engineering and led to the demise of much of the West's manufacturing industry. Starting with the automotive industry, Japanese companies revolutionised the process with ‘zero defects', ‘right first time' and similarly purposeful intentions. Today, either a company's manufacturing is world class or it's not in business. These attitudinal changes, translated into practice, are at the heart of this book - Laing, T., Sato, M., Grubb, M., and Comberti, C. 2013. Assessing the Effectiveness of the EU Emissions Trading System. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper 126. London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are interested in the field of natural resources and economic development, then you surely know Veronica Nyhan Jones. Currently at the IFC Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory, she has been central to the implementation of World Bank Group development programmes in the extractives. After decades of persistent reduction in global poverty, do we still need global development banks?  In this personal conversation with Veronica, we revisit the relevance of multilateral organisations,  discuss the nature of economic development and consider the most pressing global development challenges ahead.***Highgrade is a not-for-profit organisation that produces interviews and documentaries that identify, capture and disseminate analysis and insights in the field of natural resources and social progress.Our mission is to provide open and free access to specialist knowledge and to disseminate good practice and innovation in this field. See www.highgrade.media for our portfolio of published material.With support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, through BGR, and the Inter-American Development Bank.***Follow us on social media for daily insights and behind the scenes moments:TwitterLinkedIn

Ever heard of the marshmallow experiment? The 10,000 hour rule? How about the Dunning-Kruger effect, the Stanford prison experiment, or willpower fatigue? These are some of the most well-known pieces of research from the social sciences. And they all share one problem: they're wrong. Or, at least, they're really misunderstood.On this episode of "10 Good Minutes," Forrest explores social science's Replicability Crisis, and asks whether you can actually trust the research that goes into Being Well.If you'd like to watch this episode rather than listen to it, Forrest has a new YouTube channel! Subscribe to the channel, and watch the video over there. Cited Research:Kruger, J.; Dunning, D. (1999) "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” Nuhfer, Edward; Cogan, Christopher; Fleischer, Steven; Gaze, Eric; Wirth, Karl. (2016) "Random Number Simulations Reveal How Random Noise Affects the Measurements and Graphical Portrayals of Self-Assessed Competency.” Shoda, Y., Mischel, W., & Peake, P. K. (1990). Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. Tyler W. Watts, Greg J. Duncan, Haonan Quan. (2018) Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication Investigating Links Between Early Delay of Gratification and Later Outcomes. B. Nyhan , J. Reifler. (2010) “When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions.” Wood, T., Porter, E. (2018) “The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence.” Brown NJ, Sokal AD, Friedman HL. (2013). The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: the critical positivity ratio. Haney, C., Banks, C., & Zimbardo, P. (1973). Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison. Baumeister, R.F. (2002) Ego Depletion and Self-Control Failure: An Energy Model of the Self's Executive Function. Carter E.C., Kofler L.M., Forster D.E., McCullough M.E. (2015) A series of meta-analytic tests of the depletion effect: Self-control does not seem to rely on a limited resource. Brown N.J., Sokal A.D., Friedman H.L. (2013). The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: the critical positivity ratio. Ericsson, A. K. (2008) Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview. Connect with the show:Follow Forrest on YouTubeFollow us on InstagramFollow Rick on FacebookFollow Forrest on FacebookSubscribe on iTunes

Matt is joined by guests to discuss the state apology after the report from the commission on the Mother and Baby Homes, the Covid crisis in hospitals, and Donald Trump Being impeached for the second time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bill Lowry, Commissioner of the 3rd District of Cook County, speaks with Emmett about breathing life into the law from the perspective of an often misunderstood layer of local government. Together, they take a deep dive into one of America's most storied and mischaracterized political machines. A Loyola Chicago Law alumnus, Commissioner Lowry is also president and a co-managing shareholder at Nyhan, Bambrick, Kinzie & Lowry.

Back in April, Dr. Brendan Nyhan, an expert in the politics of misinformation about health, talked with guest host Dr. Colleen Barry, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, about social media, scientific uncertainty, and COVID-19’s misinformation storm. Today, he returns to the podcast to discuss what we’ve learned about misinformation since then, why—like the virus itself—it’s so hard to eradicate, and a new threat: how COVID-19 misinformation may impact the upcoming election. Nyhan also talks about how misinformation may be threatening the very fabric of democracy, and what social media platforms and leaders should be vigilant about in the days and weeks to come to promote the integrity of the election.

EDIT: THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED, EDITED, AND RELEASED BEFORE PUR REBRAND AS FRIDAYS WITH FRANK. WE FELT THOUGH THAT THIS IS STILL PART OF WHO WE ARE AS WE GROW AND CHANGE, AND SO IT WILL STAY UP. It has been a bit, but in this episode, we decide to switch it from on M to the other, and go over some science. Apologies in advance, as there is a LOT of jargon in this episode, especially since we went over genetics, but it couldn't be helped. Don't worry though Frank was just as lost as the rest of you reading, researching, and talking about it. Also, Chase plays a prank on Teresa with a pillow, and Teresa finally admits why she is really on the podcast. Oh, and we finally got rid of the jarring transitions to an ad! References Glick, N. (2006), Dramatic reduction in self‐injury in Lesch–Nyhan disease following S‐adenosylmethionine administration. J Inherit Metab Dis,29: 687-687. doi:10.1007/s10545-006-0229-8 Michael Lesch, William L. Nyhan (1964). A familial disorder of uric acid metabolism and central nervous system function. The American Journal of Medicine. Volume 36 (4), pgs 561-570, https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(64)90104-4. Lloyd, K.G., Hornykiewicz, O., Davidson, L., Shannak, K., et. al. (1981) Biochemical evidence of dysfunction of brain neurotransmitters in the Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. The New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJM198111053051902 Harris, J.C. (2018). Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and its variants: examining the behavioral and neurocognitive phenotype. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 31(2): pp 96-102. doi:https://doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000388 https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7226/lesch-nyhan-syndrome Preston, R. (2009). Panic in level 4: Cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fridayswithfrank/message

On today's episode, Melanie goes solo as she discusses the many things that currently cause living a healthy lifestyle to be daunting af. She debunks so many common myths around fitness, nutrition, body image, and supplements - this episode is going to blow your mind.Especially with celebrating July 4th this weekend, you might be feeling like you need to cut out all "bad" foods in order to fix the entire bag of Doritos and burgers you ate... but listen to this episode and you'll realize how simple & sustainable it can be! If you fall off the wagon and think that you need to go to the extremes to "fix" it, this episode is for you. Keep in mind this episode talks a ton about losing weight and changing body composition, which is something you absolutely DO NOT need to do. You are beautiful the way that you are, and you do not need to change a thing. Thank you so much for listening, your support means more than you know

In this episode of Academia Lite, Sean, Zak and Adam get into two thought-provoking papers: - An inflated view of the facts? How preferences and predispositions shape conspiracy beliefs about the Deflategate scandal by Carey, J. M., Nyhan, B., Valentino, B., & Liu, M - Lunacy revisited–the myth of the full moon: are football injuries related to the lunar cycle? by Yousfi, N., Rekik, R. N., Eirale, C., Whiteley, R., Farooq, A., Tabben, M., ... & Chamari, K Examining the irregular, the surprising and the downright funny of each paper, there is something for the academic in all of us. Website: academialite.com Twitter: @academialite Facebook: Academia Lite Instagram: academialite Email: Hello@academialite.com Music by Softly Softly - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7x5ZnnlIGAtbRrlj2La2Yl?si=iuNAXt7c * Carey, J. M., Nyhan, B., Valentino, B., & Liu, M. (2016). An inflated view of the facts? How preferences and predispositions shape conspiracy beliefs about the Deflategate scandal. Research & Politics, 3(3), 2053168016668671. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168016668671 * Yousfi, N., Rekik, R. N., Eirale, C., Whiteley, R., Farooq, A., Tabben, M., ... & Chamari, K. (2018). Lunacy revisited–the myth of the full moon: are football injuries related to the lunar cycle?. Chronobiology international, 35(10), 1385-1390. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07420528.2018.1483943?casa_token=D5vlp0hnOYEAAAAA%3AAMEhPR8yY6h_JXR-_HRr-_252a1JS7j2rEr5BPatGzNcrqsQKzwcYNhoWYRTLx-ytJFlYWC5KArT-R0

In this episode of Academia Lite, Sean, Zak and Adam get into two thought-provoking papers: - An inflated view of the facts? How preferences and predispositions shape conspiracy beliefs about the Deflategate scandal by Carey, J. M., Nyhan, B., Valentino, B., & Liu, M - Lunacy revisited–the myth of the full moon: are football injuries related to the lunar cycle? by Yousfi, N., Rekik, R. N., Eirale, C., Whiteley, R., Farooq, A., Tabben, M., ... & Chamari, K Examining the irregular, the surprising and the downright funny of each paper, there is something for the academic in all of us. Website: academialite.com Twitter: @academialite Facebook: Academia Lite Instagram: academialite Email: Hello@academialite.com Music by Softly Softly - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7x5ZnnlIGAtbRrlj2La2Yl?si=iuNAXt7c * Carey, J. M., Nyhan, B., Valentino, B., & Liu, M. (2016). An inflated view of the facts? How preferences and predispositions shape conspiracy beliefs about the Deflategate scandal. Research & Politics, 3(3), 2053168016668671. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168016668671 * Yousfi, N., Rekik, R. N., Eirale, C., Whiteley, R., Farooq, A., Tabben, M., ... & Chamari, K. (2018). Lunacy revisited–the myth of the full moon: are football injuries related to the lunar cycle?. Chronobiology international, 35(10), 1385-1390. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07420528.2018.1483943?casa_token=D5vlp0hnOYEAAAAA%3AAMEhPR8yY6h_JXR-_HRr-_252a1JS7j2rEr5BPatGzNcrqsQKzwcYNhoWYRTLx-ytJFlYWC5KArT-R0

As many of us spend lots of time at home with our families, we've got two books this week about what it means to be a family and what we'd do to protect the ones we love.

Author Loretta Nyhan joins host Kerry Anne King to talk about her newly released novel, The Other Family, as well as author life during quarantine. Loretta reveals where the idea for this book came from, what her writing process is like, the difficulties of quarantine writing and more.

A President, a DJ, and a Drummer walk into a bar, or my Basement?! LOL Grab a drink and settle in for the fun, cause you never know who or what we'll dig up in... Boomer's Basement! Originally aired 5/8/2020 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/boomer-blake/support

Author Loretta Nyhan joins host Kerry Anne King to talk about her newly released novel, The Other Family, as well as author life during quarantine. Loretta reveals where the idea for this book came from, what her writing process is like, the difficulties of quarantine writing and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tellmeyoursecrets/message

Let's kick things off by discussing what Zen and Waffles is about! Episode one dives into what you can expect from this podcast, as well as Melanie's own philosophy around health and wellness. Melanie also goes into her experience working in the fitness industry and how it has evolved over time. Finally, she goes on to answer questions from the audience including what the best training style is, how you will benefit from this podcast, and so much more!

Today’s author interview guest is Loretta Nyhan, author of The Other Family. From the bestselling author of Digging In comes a witty and moving novel about motherhood, courage, and finding true family. With a dissolving marriage, strained finances, and her life in […]

This week on Lawfare’s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Brendan Nyhan, a professor of political science at Dartmouth University. We talk a lot about the crisis of falsehoods circulating online, but Nyhan’s work focuses on empirical research on what the effects of disinformation and misinformation actually are. And he’s found that those effects might play less of a role in political discourse than you’d think—or at least not quite in the way you might think. They talked about the fake news about fake news and the echo chamber about echo chambers.

When consuming the news, people bring their biases with them. However, University of Michigan professor Brendan Nyhan and other scholars have found that facts can — and do — change people’s minds when presented under certain conditions. We discuss his research on how to create a more widely-shared understanding of reality and related topics.

When consuming the news, people bring their biases with them. However, University of Michigan professor Brendan Nyhan and other scholars have found that facts can — and do — change people's minds when presented under certain conditions. We discuss his research on how to create a more widely-shared understanding of reality and related topics.

When consuming the news, people bring their biases with them. However, University of Michigan professor Brendan Nyhan and other scholars have found that facts can — and do — change people’s minds when presented under certain conditions. We discuss his research on how to create a more widely-shared understanding of reality and related topics.

Premium Lecture Available with an AnethesiaExam.com Membership or Premium Podcast Membership References Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Review Hensley, Nadia, MD; Dietrich, Jennifer, MD; Nyhan, Daniel, MD; Mitter, Nanhi, MD; Yee, May-Sann, MD; Brady, MaryBeth, MDAnesthesia & Analgesia: March 2015 - Volume 120 - Issue 3 - p 554–569 doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000538   Cardiovascular Anesthesiology: Review Article J Clin Diagn Res. 2013 Jun; 7(6): 1174–1176. Published online 2013 Jun 1. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2013/5390.3069 PMCID: PMC3708228 PMID: 23905133 Dilated Cardiomyopathy: An Anaesthetic Challenge Haramritpal Kaur,1 Ranjana Khetarpal,2 and Shobha Aggarwal3

This week, Alex and Ryan sit down with Dr. Jenny Rice (Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky) and discuss the rhetoric of “alternative researchers” (i.e. conspiracy theorists), particularly how their practices mirror our own as we construct knowledge in our academic and personal lives. In Dr. Rice's forthcoming book (tentatively titled Awful Archives) she outlines how “archival” practices – broadly defined as the accumulation, organization/categorization, and referencing of information – are often shaped by our sense of what is “beautiful” or “repulsive,” and argues that we can better understand collective knowledge-making processes if we examine “evidence” for its aesthetic dimensions. In essence, the constant accumulation of evidence into an archive of knowledge can give us a sense of satisfaction, in that it feels like we are “making sense” of a chaotic and complex world – continuously forming it into a coherent narrative that helps explain events occurring around us.In exploring this idea through examples ranging from 9/11 “truthers,” the Sandy Hook “crisis actor” conspiracy theory, and the TV show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, we try to work toward a better understanding about how our social & cultural practices shape the kinds of evidence we consider beautiful or ugly, and discuss how to use this understanding for productive ends when communicating among people with whom we disagree.Works & concepts cited in this episode:Adorno, T. W., Frenkel-Brunswik, E., Levinson, D. J., & Stanford, N. R. (1950). The authoritarian personality. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers.Aristotle. Poetics (trans. S.H. Butcher). The Internet Classics Archive. Retrieved from: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html [where Dr. Rice draws on the concept of Megethos or “magnitude” – n.b. Section 1, part VII]Bitzer, L. (1968). The rhetorical situation. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 1(1), 1-14.Edbauer, J. (2005). Unframing models of public distribution: From rhetorical situation to rhetorical ecologies. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 35(4), 5-24.Grassi, E. (1980). Rhetoric as philosophy: The humanist tradition. State College, PA: Penn State University Press.Nyhan, B., & Reifler, J. (2010). When corrections fail: The persistence of political misperceptions. Political Behavior, 32(2), 303-330. [Study on the “backfire effect” re: political beliefs]http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdfRice, J. (2012). Distant publics: Development rhetoric and the subject of crisis. University of Pittsburgh Press.Rice, J. (2017). The Rhetorical Aesthetics of More: On Archival Magnitude. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 50(1), 26-49.Schrag, C. O. (1992). The resources of rationality: A response to the postmodern challenge. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

In the third instalment of my Podcast I speak to Lorcan Nyhan. Lorcan is a media and communications expert with The Communications Clinic. Given his experience I spoke with him on how to approach an interview in order to land your dream Job!!!

On the show this week we talk to Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan, who has focused much of his research on employing the tools of social science to study fact-checking—why it so often fails, and what can be done to make it work better. The cynical view on fact-checking is "too negative," argues Nyhan. "I think you have to think about what politics might look like without those fact-checkers, and I think it would look worse."This episode is guest co-hosted by Rebecca Watson of skepchick.org, filling in for Indre who is out this week. It also features a discussion of a new study suggesting that religious and non-religious individuals are equally moral, and new research on gender discrimination in job performance evaluations, particularly by men with traditional views of gender roles.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

In the vein of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and on the tails of The Paris Wife comes a stunning debut from authors Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan. In January 1943, Glory Whitehall and Rita Vincenzo begin a remarkable correspondence. Told through their letters during WWII, this incredible story brings together two unforgettable women who have never met in person yet share an unbreakable bond of friendship.

Rockefeller Center Panelists: Joseph Bafumi Associate Professor of Government Joseph Bafumi is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He was a 2010-2011 American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow serving on the Senate Budget Committee staff. Bafumi teaches courses in American government, public policy and quantitative methods. He has published in several scholarly journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis and PS: Political Science & Politics. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. Linda Fowler Professor of Government Linda L. Fowler is Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses on American politics and has published widely on topics ranging from congressional elections and candidate recruitment, voter learning in primary elections and congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy. Beginning in 1995, Fowler served for nine years as the director of the Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth, she was a professor of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Fowler served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and as aide to the Administrator for Water Quality at the Environmental Protection Agency. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Brendan Nyhan Assistant Professor of Government Brendan Nyhan is currently an Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on political scandal, misperceptions about politics and health care, and applications of social network analysis and applied statistical methods to contemporary politics. Before coming to Dartmouth, Nyhan served as a RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. In 2004, Nyhan co-authored the New York Times bestseller All The President's Spin. He is an avid blogger and currently serves as New Hampshire campaign correspondent for Columbia Journalism Review. Nyhan received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Moderator: Charles Wheelan Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center Charles Wheelan is Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. Formerly a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School at the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Center welcomed Professor Wheelan back to Dartmouth fulltime in June 2012. Since 2006, Wheelan has taught economics and public policy courses at Dartmouth during sophomore summer. He has also served as a correspondent for The Economist, and written freelance articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Wheelan's first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, served as an accessible and entertaining introduction to economics and is now published in 10 languages. The Chicago Tribune described Naked Economics as "clear, concise, informative, and (gasp) witty," and was selected as one of The 100 Best Business Books of all Time by 800-CEOREAD.

Ever been in an argument with someone and felt massively frustrated, because nothing you can say seems to change the person's mind? Maybe that's what you should expect to happen. Maybe you should get used to it. According to University of Michigan political scientist Brendan Nyhan, that's how our minds work-and it's not just that. When it comes to politics, people who believe incorrect things tend to be strongly convinced that they're right, and moreover, often become stronger in that conviction when they're refuted. It's a pretty alarming aspect of human nature-but in this interview, Nyhan explains how we know what we do about people's intransigent clinging to misperceptions, and how we can work to change that. Brendan Nyhan is a political scientist and Robert Wood Johnson scholar in health policy research at the University of Michigan. He was previously a co-author of the political debunking website Spinsanity.com, and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book All The President's Spin. He blogs at www.brendan-nyhan.com.