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The Sociological Effects of Credible Threats

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 August 2008
I wanted to throw up this morning after reading of a guns/drugs arrest outside of Denver and a “connection with a possible plot to kill Senator Barack Obama during his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday night,” as the New York Times reported. Call me paranoid, call me a skeptic but my first reaction [...]
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In an iReport World, Who Can We Trust?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 29 July 2008
In the mid-2008 media world, every network, blog, and news website wants to break the big impact story in times of developing news. For hours after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Chino Hills, ~30 miles from LA, rocked Southern California, all of the major networks and their websites continued carrying the news with a [...]
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Iowa Under Water: Familiar Ground is Flooded

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 15 June 2008
In the months before my freshman year at the University of Iowa, the Iowa River flooded its banks, closing one dorm for the entire first semester and leaving me with 2 roommates in a double dorm — some doubles were turned into quads, in fact. Fifteen years later, and the flooding is worse — just [...]
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