Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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For large things like dinosaur skeletons there are relatively few on display anywhere. For a start there are only so many good Tyrannosaurus or Stegosaurus skeletons to go around between all the museums that want them, and also it’s now considered not such a great idea to drill holes through your priceless bones and then stand them up on display. As a result, many skeletons and other items in exhibitions are casts – copies of real bones. These are made in much the same way a dentist does of your teeth or you may have done at school by making moulds of resin or rubber cement and taking a cast from this. Whole skeletons can be produced in this way, but also even the best originals may have pieces missing or too damaged to be shown and so a cast (from another animal or another bone of the same one) might be used to fill in a missing arm or a rib. Fake news about the King being ill was printed from sources on the side of the rebels. It didn’t take long before these stories were seen by other printers who then republished them. This harmed the King’s public image, and although the rebellion wasn’t successful, showed how fake news can be used to try and change people’s opinions.

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Even in the best of all possible (human) worlds, then, individuals can be mistaken. Even Nobel Prize winners. (12) Smart people can advocate false history, paranormal phenomena and other 'weird things'. (3) Fritze himself describes several academics espousing 'wrong' ideas: Barry Fell, Charles Hapgood, Martin Bernal, and others. But they remain a conundrum for him: their irrationality contravenes the academic mantle of absolute authority (pp. 201, 220, 251). Alternatively, one may well wonder how we manage to construct academic and other institutions that seem to buffer themselves against spurious thinking. We might want to celebrate how public institutions, for the most part, do not succumb to pseudohistory when it is so rampant in the culture, as well as to ask why this is the case. For conventional rationalists (exemplified in Fritze's approach), rational belief is the expected norm, and one attributes 'deviation' from those norms to social and psychological factors (see list above). But the real challenge seems to be the symmetrical explanation: how does something as unusual or fragile as rationality, empirical science or reliable history emerge psychologically and socially? (9, 14) How to Take a Nail Selfie!” “Fruity Manicure Inspo!” “Kylie Jenner Slammed by Fans for Nearly Poking Out Stormi’s Eyes With Ridiculous Claw Nails.” The discovery of gold in seawater in 1872, created a kind of gold rush – or gold slosh, perhaps. “The ocean is a goldmine,” the newspapers crowed. Even with an estimated gold content of less than 1 grain per tonne of water that meant a lot of precious metal just there for the taking. Prescott Jernegan’s Electrolytic Marine Salts Company promised gold from the sea, and the town of Lubec, Maine, boomed as company’s gold-accumulating machines got to work, apparently very successfully. You can probably imagine what happened next. Piltdown Man After watching the programme, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own tree. Alas, it was an April Fools’ Day joke. More effective education will also need to respect the research literature on teaching and learning. Informed educators now reject the model of authority whereby teachers list known fallacies, provide illustrations, and test for recall and taxonomy. Professional educators underscore the value of problem-based learning. Students need to be engaged in the process to develop skills: by following exemplars and practicing applications. Episodes such as those Fritze discusses could be valuable case studies in such an education. But to be effective, one must recreate the historical contexts, problems and information at hand as in historical simulations. One must sympathize with the central characters and appreciate the reasonableness of error, given an incomplete view. That can then be contrasted to the later, more complete view. One must appreciate the 'ironic diptych' of reasonableness and falsity that often characterizes history. (19) Understanding the awkward relationship of alternative perspectives is how one can tame relativism without resorting to artificial absolutes. (20) Fritze's accounts, unfortunately, leave us wanting for just such an enriched historical understanding. NotesIn one of the pictures from the moon landing, you can see Armstrong clearly reflected in Aldrin’s visor. Some skeptics have pointed out that Armstrong does not appear to be holding a camera, so someone else must be taking the picture. But that isn’t true.

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History (real history, lowercase "h") remembers the Sam Adams of 1765 as a middle-aged dude with a paunch, but in "Sons of Liberty" he's, um, not like that. In fact, he's not only swoonworthy, he's also surprisingly nimble for a 43-year-old dude. And that's not the show's only inaccuracy — the Journal of the American Revolution listed 22 missteps just in the first episode. A Tyrannosaurus rex at the Field Museum Chicago Illinois. The skeleton is an original but the skull shown here is a cast as it is too heavy to mount without risking damge. The original fossil head sits in a case below. Photograph: Alamy According to Nails: The History of the Modern Manicure, archaeologists unearthed a solid gold manicure set in southern Babylonia, dating to 3,200 BC, that was apparently part of combat equipment. Given that manicures are now considered – and regularly derided – as a female pastime, this gives the term “war paint” a whole new meaning. The social significance of red nails has been a constant through the ages. They have been reserved for the elite, highlighting nail beds and social inequalities When the journal published it, Sokal revealed that the paper was in fact a spoof. The incident triggered a storm of debate about the ethics of Sokal’s prank. The spaghetti treeThe way GANS work provides extra protection for Al-Badri. The way a network creates new images disguises the source material, so no museum could be confident if its digital collection was even used in such a project just by looking at the pieces she created. “Usually this is seen as a weakness of AI,” Al-Badri says. “But in some cases, it can also be liberating.” Teeuwisse wrote a blog post about a photo, shared widely on social media, said to show a house built in the art nouveau style in Bucharest, Romania.

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upvotes Follow Unfollow 4 years ago Dots Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 This iconic selfie of a pilot photographing himself in the air was actually a photo of him when he was safely landed, but it's important to mention, that even on the land, it's a pretty cool selfie! There's is a weird obsession with moons in viral photos, it seems that if you really want to have a popular photo, just add a moon in the most unrealistic place and there you have it. That's exactly what happened with this photo taken by Mo Aoun.Hands are what I examine first, most AI programmes still have problems with hands and you often see that people have too many fingers or they just look weird.