Evgeny Morozov: the epidemic of fake news is a symptom of the digital system that makes fake news profitable, but focusing on it serves as distraction from recognizing the deeper origin of today's real political problems.

The many schemes for corruption of apparently authoritative truth have made the teaching of information literacy a challenge.

Thick multi-year ice is rapidly diminshing in the Arctic, leaving an ice cap made only of thin one-year ice.

The World Wide Web has become dominated by a few web sites, most of which are run by businesses and designed to addict and mistreat their visitors. A book puts this into the historical perspective of the "attention industry".

You can personally escape this if you don't visit those sites. I don't log in on any of them, and I rarely visit them at all. But we can't individually escape from the harm they do at the social level.

A Palestinian in Jerusalem used a truck as a weapon to attack Israeli soldiers.

I am sure Israel and its supporters will call this "terrorism", but attacking soldiers of an occupying army is properly called "rebellion", "resistance" or "guerrilla war". If the targets had been civilians, it would have been terrorism.