Cala Boca Galvão. Is it the new Lady Gaga single? A campaign to save an endangered South American bird? A runaway Twitter meme? The Berkman Center’s Ethan Zuckerman and IMPRENSA editor Igor Ribeiro explain.
http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2010/06/18/segments/156254
TelescopeMan discusses the internet Mars Hoax! This hoax reappears every year since 2003 during the months of July and August. The hoax appears as either an email or a PowerPoint presentation and pretends to suggest that there will be TWO moons in the night sky and or that Mars will appear as large as the full moon in the night sky. www.telescopeman.org www.telescopeman.info www.telescopeman.us
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil
This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.
This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.