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How books, movies and TV help us understand the infodemic, anti-vax messages and conspiracy theories

Stories build powerful emotional attachments. We root for heroes, boo their opponents and get anxious for the fictional problem to be solved. Facts have very little to do with it.

How Breaking Bad Created the Most Terrifying Villains on Television

It's not often a TV show has villains at the caliber of Breaking Bad. That's because the series creator Vince Gilligan used clinical psychology when he was ...

How YouTube Changed The Essay | Evan Puschak | TEDxLafayetteCollege

Evan Puschak, creator of The Nerdwriter, traces the history of the written essay and the essay-film, showing how these two strands feed into a new form of th...

I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it | Games | The Guardian

Is that the future of video games and all the other virtual places where we spend time – to have our attention continually tracked and monetised, even more so than it is in real life?