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Pew Research shows fewer than 50 percent of Americans can tell the difference between fact and opinionA new Pew Research Center survey found that only around one in four American adults could, practically-speaking, tell the difference between factual statements and opinion. The poll, which surveyed more than five thousand adults, asked those involved to correctly identify five factual statements and five opinionated statements. The results were bad, real bad. Only 26 …
1How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever MetIn real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
9California Today: Homeless Camps, With Official BlessingGood morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here's the sign-up .) Governmental czars have been appointed, ambitious plans crafted and billions of dollars spent, yet California's homeless crisis still grows. Roughly a quarter of the nation's homeless - about 118,000 people - live in California.
111 Must-Read Fall Books by Bay Area AuthorsThis year's fall reading list comes to you courtesy of some mighty Bay Area pen-wielders, including a few who are making magic of the memoir.Step inside the one-track dirty mind of a teenage boy with Daniel Handler; empathize with the childhood trauma of Amy Tan; find your "logical family" with Armi...
1How 1,600 People Disappeared on Our Public LandsWhen 18-year-old Joe Keller vanished from a dude ranch in Colorado's Rio Grande National Forest, he joined the ranks of those missing on public land. No official tally exists, but their numbers are growing. And when an initial search turns up nothing, who'll keep looking?
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