The ruins of the city Cyrene, an ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in Libya. Mahir Alawami/Shutterstock Andrew Wilson, University of Bradford Our present is intrinsically bound up with our past, our sense of identity shaped and moulded by the...
With our attention diverted, we’re no longer in the moment. ‘Concert’ via www.shutterstock.com Rebecca Macmillan, University of Texas at Austin At a conference on June 14, Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn predicted that the social networking site would...
Nope, not a real news report from Hurricane Irma. Snopes Hany Farid, Dartmouth College One month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an “Access Hollywood” recording of Donald Trump was released in which he was heard lewdly talking about women. The...
I can tell this has been ‘shopped, on account of the pixels. Mmxx, CC BY-SA Stuart Gibson, University of Kent Faking photographs is not a new phenomenon. The Cottingley Fairies seemed convincing to some in 1917, just as the images recently broadcast on Russian...
