Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese (2006)
Read: February 2011
Pasquale lent this to me as he was on his way out of the apartment to Oman. I decided to give myself a lighter read for the next few days and so read it straight away rather than going onto my new Matt Rees.
This book required a lot of internet research and a little bit of writing. It's basically a collection of internet, or other, hoaxes and dissecting whether they are true or not and their affect on the psyche today.
The most interesting aspects were examples that came up from a few hundred years ago of hoaxes, urban legends and old wives tales. And then how these are still around today. I wasn't too impressed though by the sections dedicated to "the number one forwarded picture of 2004" of baby Hitler etc. Dross.
Could be an interesting book for my Theory of Knowledge class - how do you decide if something is true or not? Does it matter if what you believe is true? Can an untruth have more impact than a truth? But mainly this was predictable stuff but it did get me through a couple of days under curfew.
Read: February 2011
Pasquale lent this to me as he was on his way out of the apartment to Oman. I decided to give myself a lighter read for the next few days and so read it straight away rather than going onto my new Matt Rees.
This book required a lot of internet research and a little bit of writing. It's basically a collection of internet, or other, hoaxes and dissecting whether they are true or not and their affect on the psyche today.
The most interesting aspects were examples that came up from a few hundred years ago of hoaxes, urban legends and old wives tales. And then how these are still around today. I wasn't too impressed though by the sections dedicated to "the number one forwarded picture of 2004" of baby Hitler etc. Dross.
Could be an interesting book for my Theory of Knowledge class - how do you decide if something is true or not? Does it matter if what you believe is true? Can an untruth have more impact than a truth? But mainly this was predictable stuff but it did get me through a couple of days under curfew.
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