August Book: Underground In Berlin

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For August we are reading Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany by Marie Jalowicz Simon. The discussion will be on August 27th at 7pm in the 3rd floor Board Room.

Copies of the book can be picked up at the Circulation Desk.

July Book: The Stranger In The Woods

July’s book is Michael Finkel’s The Stranger In the Woods.

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Our discussion will be July 30th at 7pm in the 3rd floor board room. As always there will be copies available at the Circulation Desk.

For those who follow this blog, we will  no longer be doing regular posts for the books. We will just be announcing the next book and keeping the reading lists available.

Reminder: Fantasyland Discussion

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Our discussion of Kurt Andersen’s Fantasyland is Monday, June 25th at 7pm in the 3rd floor board room.

Next month’s book will of course be available.

Suburban Development Name Generator

Walter Scott and the South

Spy

Here’s an interesting article about the author and his time parodying a pre-president Donald Trump as co-founder of Spy Magazinehttps://www.npr.org/2016/03/07/469209254/decades-later-spy-magazine-founders-continue-to-torment-trump 

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Here is a copy of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible, generously digitized for reading from the Smithsonian: http://americanhistory.si.edu/JeffersonBible/the-book/

King Phillip’s War

Here’s an excellent summary of King Phillip’s War, 1675-1676: http://historyofmassachusetts.org/what-was-king-philips-war/ 

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theory

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What is the thinking behind a person prone to conspiracy thinking? Why does the fantasy override the reality? Here’s some articles about that. Namely, Karen Douglas who has been doing research into this topic. I’ve included a recent study and article from her and a presentation she gave back in 2012

Psychology Today – Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? – Jan 6, 2018

Kent Academic Repository – The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories – 2017

Frontiers in Psychology – “What about building 7?” A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories – July 8, 2013 

BBC – The Enduring Appeal of Conspiracy Theories – Jan. 24, 2018

The Conversation – Online conspiracy theorists are more diverse (and ordinary) than most assume – March 28, 2018

Truthiness

For the clip first mentioned in Fantasyland, here’s a young(er) Stephen Colbert debuting his character for the Colbert Report defining the idea of ‘truthiness’ 

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/63ite2/the-colbert-report-the-word—truthiness

After Colbert encapsulated this idea of ‘truthiness’ during the George W. Bush administration, the news media and even academia started exploring this idea of ‘truthiness’. Some articles to consider:

Mercury News – Gut instinct and `truthiness’ overcome scientific facts in public policy arena – July 23, 2007

Scientific American – Scientists Dissect the Psychology of “Truthiness”: Researchers find a simple way to make statements seem truer – October 31, 2012

Georgia State University – Nothing But the Truthiness: A History of Television News  Parody and its Entry into the Journalistic Field – Curt W. Hersey – August 13, 2013

Psychology Today – The Dangers of “Truthiness” – September 25, 2009

CBS News: The Truth of Truthiness – December 12, 2006

The Week: How America Skidded from ‘Truthiness’ to ‘Post-Truth’- November 29, 2016

 

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