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December 2014

December 06, 2014

Just Another Kind of Gullibility

"Conspiracy believers are the ultimate motivated skeptics. Their curse is that they apply this selective...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Can University Walls Keep Out The Internet?

This is my conference paper for the Metacriticism of Biblical Studies section at SBL:______Can University...

November 21, 2014

Mythconceptions

IO9 shared an infographic about widespread misconceptions. Those relating to religion and to science intersect...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Bible Weirdness Competition

In order to illustrate some points related to information literacy in my class on the...

October 23, 2014

Round It Goes Again

In an assignment, I had students set forth in search of reliable online sources on...

October 03, 2014

Plagiarism Flowchart

Running Heads shared the chart above, aimed at journalists, but students could benefit from reading it...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Do Your Own “Research”

Open Parachute shared these three images, and I thought I'd pass them along, given their relevance...

September 16, 2014

TIL Wikipedia is not always reliable…from Wikipedia

Today I Learned is a popular subreddit on Reddit. One very recent post is this...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Amelia Bedelia and the Sinister Buttocks

Wikipedia has been making headlines again. If you haven't seen it yet, read the article...

August 11, 2014

PALNI Prize

I recently had the privilege to be an invited panelist at a PALNI (Private Academic Library...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

THE James McGrath

My friend and colleague Chad Bauman mentioned on Facebook about someone else who shares his...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Skepticism Quote

Steve Douglas took some words of mine in a recent post and turned them into...

June 18, 2014

Skepticism, Science, and Scholarship

P. Z. Myers has seen the dark side of skepticism, the fact that its tools...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Jesus is #5

A list has been drawn up of the 100 most frequently edited Wikipedia articles (HT...

May 29, 2014

Pics Or It Didn’t Happen

I saw someone use the phrase "pics or it didn't happen" on Facebook recently. It...

May 19, 2014

Spotting Bad Science and Scholarship

I became aware of this infographic a while back, and wanted to comment on it,...

May 06, 2014

Proof That God Loves Us

I fact-checked the quote about beer that is often attributed to Ben Franklin (“Beer is proof...

May 02, 2014

Critical Thinking

My colleague Elizabeth Mix gave me the idea for this song, suggesting that a song...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Fact-Checking Wisdom

April 18, 2014

Wise and Foolish Questions

Commenter Hydroxonium mentioned the first quotation. In looking for it, I found the second one...

April 17, 2014

Easter War on Information Literacy

It is always particularly disappointing when those who classify themselves as freethinkers and skeptics share...

April 13, 2014

Saddest Search of the Internet Age

One of the reasons I focus so much attention on information literacy skills, and require...

April 09, 2014

Viva La Library at 10,000 Views

Yesterday the information literacy video I made almost a year ago reached 10,000 views on...

April 03, 2014

Is the Internet a Library?

The meme image above has been circulating a lot lately. It reminded me of a...

April 01, 2014

Verse of the Day

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Navigating the Internet’s Wastelands

This post started with my coming across this XKCD cartoon (HT Marc Cortez) after having...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

The Death of Expertise

I fear we are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of...

January 16, 2014

Credentials in an Age of Blogging

Ben Witherington shared the cartoon above. One of the challenges in teaching information literacy and...

January 09, 2014

Library Instruction and Student Success

The image below is a small version of an infographic created by Julie Anne Kent...

January 07, 2014

Four Levels of Questions

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