Featured Media-saturation challenges trust in European democracy Between doomscrolling and disinformation, our media-saturated world makes it difficult to know who to trust. To mark September 15th's International Day of Democracy I spoke to a journalism researcher about the role of media in a healthy democracy.
article Five fact-checking tips from disinformation experts The modern era of disinformation can be said to have begun in the 1980s. Operatives from the then Soviet Union concocted the lie that the AIDS epidemic sweeping the world at that time was created in a government laboratory in the US. In a vast, worldwide operation involving field offices,
article Featured Theory of predictive brain as important as evolution – Prof. Lars Muckli Advanced brain imaging techniques lead to a model of how the brain processes vision – and instead of sorting through just what we see, our brains anticipate what we will see next.
article ‘Earworm melodies with strange aspects’ The software works by using neural networks – artificial intelligence systems that learn from experience by forming connections over time, thereby mimicking the biological networks of people’s brains.
