Episode 24 - Internet Myths

In a Halloween special Marianela and Ruth get round a virtual campfire and tell each other tales of the Internet. The things we fell for, and the things it revealed to us - from ugly apples to whether "blood is thicker than water".

We talk about cute animal stories, ethics in psychology experiments, haunted emails and blessed tumblr posts. The twisted parables that have lost their meaning, and the real story behind the garage they say birthed Google, Amazon, Disney, Dell, Microsoft (?)

References

1. A scientist on the myth of ugly produce and food waste, Vox

2. What The Ugly Produce Debate Gets Wrong And What It Gets Right, Forbes

3. Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance, QZ

4. Why Silicon Valley's "Self-Made" Millionaires are Really "Government-Made" Millionaires, Mic

5. The origins of Silicon Valley’s garage myth, Fast Company

6. Aiden Smith viral thread on the ‘garage myth’. (Twitter thread)

7. Elon Musk's Tesla Inc was founded by others and he was credited as co-founder through a lawsuit settlement, Meaww

8. Goats take over empty Welsh streets during coronavirus lockdown (Guardian video)

9. Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life, National Geographic

10. Did Dolphins and Swans ‘Return’ to Italian Waterways Amid COVID-19 Lockdown? Snopes

FIND US

Intersection of Things: @thingsintersect
Ruth Coustick-Deal: @nesient
Marianela Ramos Capelo: @undazedandsuch

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