Lateral reading is a strategy for evaluating the credibility of a source by comparing it to other sources. It’s especially useful when researching online. 

How to do lateral reading 

1. Open new tabs in your browser
2. Search for other sources that discuss the same topic
3. Compare and contrast the information from different sources
4. Look for evidence of bias or messaging from the original source
5. Check for hyperlinks or citations to other sources
6. Research the organizations or sources cited in the original piece

Why is lateral reading important?

• It helps you determine if the information you’re reading is credible 
• It helps you understand the author’s intent and biases 
• It helps you find potential weaknesses in the original source 

When to use lateral reading?

• When you’re researching a topic online 
• When you’re trying to evaluate the credibility of a source 
• When you’re trying to determine if a claim is true or false 

Where to find additional information? 

• Well-known fact-checking websites like Snopes, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact
• Articles from other credible sources

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Lateral reading is the act of evaluating the credibility of a source by comparing it with other sources. This allows you to: Verify evidence. Contextualize information. Find potential weaknesses.

Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online

Mike Caulfield, Sam Wineburg

An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.

The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump to thinking too fast, without taking a few moments to verify the source before engaging with a claim or viral piece of media. Information literacy expert Mike Caulfield and educational researcher Sam Wineburg are here to enable us to take a moment for due diligence with this informative, approachable guide to the internet. With this illustrated tool kit, you will learn to identify red flags, get quick context, and make better use of common websites like Google and Wikipedia that can help and hinder in equal measure.
 
This how-to guide will teach you how to use the web to verify the web, quickly and efficiently, including how to
•     Verify news stories and other events in as little as thirty seconds (seriously)
•     Determine if the article you’re citing is by a reputable scholar or a quack
•     Detect the slippery tactics scammers use to make their sites look credible
•     Decide in a minute if that shocking video is truly shocking
•     Deduce who’s behind a site—even when its ownership is cleverly disguised
•     Uncover if that feature story is actually a piece planted by a foreign government
•     Use Wikipedia wisely to gain a foothold on new topics and leads for digging deeper

And so much more. Building on techniques like SIFT and lateral reading, Verified will help students and anyone else looking to get a handle on the internet’s endless flood of information through quick, practical, and accessible steps. 

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Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in te abstract” comparing and contrasting what you think is the truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth.

The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week. 

1)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so, therefore truth is all that is.  Truth being all is therefore total, being total is therefore whole, being whole is therefore one, being one is therefore united, being united is therefore harmonious, being harmonious is therefore orderly.  I think therefore I am.  Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth.  Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth.  Therefore I, being, am total, whole, one, united, harmonious, orderly.  Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I am Truth, therefore Truth is mind/consciousness.  (Two things being equal to a third thirg are equal to each other.) 

2)    Paresthesia may indicate impending danger or impending catharsis.

Word-tracking:
paresthesia:  abnormal or unexplained tingling, prickling or burning sensation of the skin
fear:  anticipation
anticipation:  to catch before it happens
impending:  about to happen
danger:  power to do harm, sovereign, lord
overwhelm:  to turn upside down, overturn, to use superior strength
catharsis:  cleansing
castrate:  to take away someone’s power
neuter:  neither
power:  potent, the ability to be

3)    Truth being all there is, there is no ability to be (power) other than Truth, therefore Truth is all-powerful.  Truth being all-powerful is thus the only power. there is no power which is superior to or inferior to Truth, therefore Truth is neither overwhelming or overwhelmed.  Since Truth is the only power, there is nothing other than truth which can take away power, therefore Truth cannot be castrated OR Truth is unneutered omnipotence.  Truth being all that is is therefore all that takes place, all that happens.  Since Truth is all that happens, there is nothing impending (which hasn’t happened yet–or is not Truth yet), Therefore Truth is what is happening now OR Truth is all that can be anticipated.  Truth being true is therefore right, being right is therefore correct, being correct is therefore perfect, being perfect is therefore pure.  Truth being pure has not need for catharsis (cleansing), therefore Truth is automatic catharsis.

4)    Truth is all-powerful.  
        Truth is neither overwhelming or overwhelmed.
        Truth cannot be castrated OR Truth is unneutered omnipotence. 
        Therefore Truth is what is happening now OR Truth is all that can be anticipated.  
        Truth is automatic catharsis.

5)    Truth is unneutered omnipotence, unoverwhelmed and unoverwhelming.

Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation.  If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to  zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.

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thorough (adj.)

Middle English thoro, thorow, “perfect, complete,” mid-13c., a two-syllable stressed form of thurgh “passing or cutting all the way through,” which is an adverb (represented by modern through, “from end to end, from side to side”) used as an adjective. The notion in thorough is “going all the way through.“

Þurh-, thurgh- was an active word-forming element and prefix in Old English and Middle English, often in making transitive verbs of motion (thurghcomen, thurghgon, thurghfallen, thurghserchen, and compare thoroughfare) or intensive adjectives (thurgh-fin, thurgh-hot, thurgh-stif, thurgh-wet, and compare thoroughgoing). It also often translates Latin per-.

The stressed form of through began to develop in the adverb in late Old English. The stress and spelling change seems to not directly track with the sense shift. For the form, compare borough from Old English burh, furrow from furh. Related: Thoroughly; thoroughness.

The Old English adverb is attested as þurh, þurg, þuruh, þorh, þorch, þerh. It became through, the common modern form, by transposition. 

also from mid-13c.

(etymonline.com)

I’ve seen Talking Circles have a powerful impact on groups of adults and children, and in our family we often do them, and even will invite friends over to do them, as if they were a parlor game.

THOM HARTMANN

JAN 08, 2025 (wisdomschool.com)

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject… — Samuel Johnson

Over the past few years I’ve had the privilege to spend time on several Native American reservations, as well as both attending and speaking at a major conference on Native American spirituality and wellness.

One of the Native American rituals I’ve participated in numerous times is something called the Talking Circle, and my experience in both participating in it and also using it with groups of people is that it can be a strong healing agent and skill-builder for both adults and children. It can be used among friends, in school situations, and particularly in families and support groups.

In Native tribes I’ve spent time with, from the Apache to the Hopi (which is a pretty huge cultural chasm), I’ve noticed something quite different from the way people communicate in white culture. Conversation in white (and even Black and Hispanic — really, to generalize, I should probably say “mainstream American”) culture is often a competitive sport.

If there are several people together, the strongest conversational competitor will win out, dominating the conversation and often the group; the weakest may not be heard from at all.

Native American culture values cooperation over competition, and this is reflected in virtually every aspect of their lives and lifestyles.

Many of the Native Americans I’ve met engage in conversation quite differently from the “American competitive style”: they listen, usually looking down and not establishing eye contact, until the person speaking is completely finished.

Then they talk, and they fully expect to be able to completely finish their thought before they’ll be interrupted or the conversation goes off to another person.

This style of conversation is fully expressed in the Talking Circle. In this conversational situation, a sacred object such as a carved stick, feather, or something else meaningful is passed around the circle in a clockwise direction.

The “rules” for the Talking Circles I’ve been a part of are:

1. The person holding the object is the only one with the right to speak, even if s/he takes a long time to think about what to say and there’s a pause in the conversation.

2. If somebody else in the circle wants to comment on what’s being said, those comments are limited to noises which can be made through the nose, usually just a soft grunt of agreement. Negative comments are strongly discouraged or outright banned. Otherwise, each person must wait her or his turn.

3. When the object comes to you, you may talk about “whatever is in your heart.” In other words, while there may be an overall topic that the Talking Circle is centered around, conversation is by no means limited to this. A person is absolutely free to say whatever is in their heart, without limitation, and in the safe and comfortable knowledge that nobody will criticize it or interrupt it.

4. If a person talks on overlong, people around the circle begin to discreetly cough. “Overlong” is usually defined according to the situation, but could be three minutes to ten minutes, depending on the size of the group, the topic, and how long the group wants to spend together. If you have the object and notice that others are coughing, it’s time to pass it along. (Use of a timer or gong would be highly inappropriate for a Talking Circle, as it’s an artificial imposition on the organic process of the Circle.)

5. The circle goes around and around either until everybody has had one opportunity to talk (usually in a larger group with time constraints) or until each person, when they receive the object, expresses the feeling that they’ve pretty much said everything they have to say. It’s interesting to see how this works: the process is usually quite organic, and everybody pretty much “winds down” about the same time.

Talking Circles are both cathartic, healing, and extraordinarily effective ways of bringing everybody into the process of communication and group life. Because you can’t speak until you have the object, the skills of listening carefully and learning how to remember what you want to say when your time comes are developed and exercised.

I’ve seen Talking Circles have a powerful impact on groups of adults and children, and in our family we often do them, and even will invite friends over to do them, as if they were a parlor game. (“Come on over to our house for dinner an a one-hour Talking Circle!”) I highly recommend you try one out a few times with your friends and family.

Dec 26, 2024 • Quantum entanglement defies our everyday understanding of reality. Even Einstein didn’t believe it, but science has proven it true.

By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)

“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson lamented in a love letter. In his splendid short poem about the secret of happiness, Kurt Vonnegut exposed the taproot of our modern suffering as the gnawing sense that what we have is not enough, that what we are is not enough.

This is our modern curse: A century of conspicuous consumption has trained us to be dutiful citizens of the Republic of Not Enough, swearing allegiance to the marketable myth of scarcity, hoarding toilet paper for the apocalypse. Along the way, we have unlearned how to live wide-eyed with wonder at what Hermann Hesse called “the little joys” — those unpurchasable, unstorable emblems of aliveness that abound the moment we look up from our ledger of lack.

The poet and etymologist John Ciardi (June 24, 1916–March 30, 1986) offers an uncommonly wonderful wakeup call for this civilizational trance in the out-of-print 1963 gem John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan (public library) — part fable, part poem, part prayer for happiness.

Written as a long lyric and illustrated with gentle charcoal sketches by the artist and experimental filmmaker Madeliene Gekiere, the story is a soulful — spiritual, even — modern take on Aesop’s famed tale of the grasshopper and the ant, radiating a countercultural invitation to rediscover life’s true priorities amid our confused maelstrom of materialism and compulsive productivity.

Ten years ago, or maybe twenty,
There lived an ant named John J. Plenty.
And every day, come rain, come shine,
John J. would take his place in line
With all the other ants. All day
He hunted seeds to haul away,
Or beetle eggs, or bits of bread.

These he would carry on his head
Back to his house. And John J., he
Was happy as an ant can be
When he was carrying a load
Big as a barn along the road.

The work was hard, but all John J. —
Or any other ant — would say
Was “More! Get more! No time to play!
Winter is coming.”

So it is that, as the birds of summer sing, John J. Plenty goes on hoarding “beetle eggs, and crumbs, and seeds, moth-hams, flower-fuzz, salad-weeds, grub-sausages, the choicer cuts of smoked bees, aphid butter, nuts,” single of purpose, always marching to the chant of “More! Get more!,” insentient to Annie Dillard’s haunting admonition that “how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Then comes the turn — that vital and vitalizing element of every good poem and every good story: One day, John J.’s sister falls in love with a grasshopper named Dan, who spends his days playing his carefree fiddle in the grass, filling the world with music. Worried about what would happen to his sister when winter comes and she has no cache of sustenance, John J. tries to stop her. But she elopes with Fiddler Dan, feeding on love and music.

All day long from rose to rose
Dan played the music the summer knows,
Of the sun and rain through the tall corn rows,
And of time as it comes, and of love as it grows.

And all the summer stirred to hear
The voice of the music. Far and near
The grasses swayed, and the sun and shade
Danced to the love the music played.

And Dan played on for the world to turn,
While his little wife lay on a fringe of fern,
And heard the heart of summer ringing,
Sad and sweet to the fiddle’s singing.

In consonance with John Berger’s observation that music is our best means of taking shelter in time, Ciardi writes:

So the sun came up and the sun went down.
So summer changed from green to brown.
So autumn changed from brown to gold.
And the music sang, “The world grows old,
But never my song. The song stays new,
My sad sweet love, as the thought of you.”

And summer and autumn dreamed and found
The name of the world in that sad sweet sound
Of the music telling how time grows old.
Fields held their breath to hear it told.
The trees bent down from the hills to hear.
A flower uncurled to shed a tear
For the sound of the music. And field and hill
Woke from the music, sad and still.

John J. Plenty hears “the music far and near,” but goes on trudging along to the trance of “Get more!” His sister and Fiddler Dan, he vows, will get nothing from him when winter comes — that will teach them, he grumbles.

And then winter does come, and John J. Plenty shuts his door, and he gloats when he hears the music go silent, and he gloats as he begins relishing his infinite stash of delicacies.

But as he heaps poached beetle-eggs and moth-ham onto his plate, he is suddenly seized with a terrible thought: What if winter goes on forever and he ends up not having enough?

So John J. Plenty waited and fasted.
As for the winter, it lasted and lasted.
He nibbled a crumb one day in ten.
But he shook with terror even then
When the thought of how he might be wasting
All that food he was hardly tasting.
And that’s how it went.

When spring arrives at last, John J. Plenty vows to store twice as much this year. But as he starts out the door to find his first load, he is stilled in his tracks by the sound of music.

From far and near, from blade to blade,
He heard the song that springtime played.
It’s a softer fiddle than autumn knows
When the fiddler goes down tall corn rows,
But the same far song. It grows and grows,
And spring and summer stir to hear
The music sounding far and near.
And the grasses sway, and the sun and shade
Dance when they hear the music played.

It was Dan, still singing for time to turn
While his little wife lay on a fringe of fern
And heard the heart of the springtime ringing
Sweet and new as the fiddle’s singing.

Stung with disbelief that Fiddler Dan survived the winter with nothing but his store of beauty, John J. Plenty topples over and falls facedown in the mud as the music goes on playing and life goes on living itself through its natural abundance.

I guess he recovered. I hope he did.
I don’t know where the Fiddler hid
With his pretty wife from ice and snow.
I guess about all I really know
Is — save a little or save a lot,
You have to eat some of what you’ve got.
And — say what you like as you trudge along,
The world won’t turn without a song.

The Princess of Wands This is a powerful and hopeful card, promising energy, action and progress. One of the very important inner aspects of the Princess of Wands is her function in allowing us to leave old fears behind.The Princess of Wands represents the freedom we gain when we release old restrictions and habits, in order to forge forward into a future which is shaped more by ourselves, and less by outdated environments, and outmoded concepts.We often find, when we examine our motives and attitudes thoroughly, that somehow we have collected lots of emotional ‘garbage’ along the way. Sometimes we do not even realise this exists; other times we know these problems exist, but rarely take the time to examine how they affect us, what they deny us, how we limit ourselves by failing to clean them out.So on a day ruled by Princess of Wands, we need to select one of our fears or habits, and really subject it to careful scrutiny. Take a good hard look at what this particular fear gives you in terms of support, and what it gives you in terms of damage. Try to isolate where it came from. And try not to run away from doing either of these things.Very often you will find that the fear or habit is rooted far in the past. You may well discover that it no longer has any relevance; that it takes away your freedom to choose your actions in a given area in your life.Once you’ve isolated your fear or habit, use the affirmation for all you’re worth. Make a mental image which encapsulates your fear. Make your image tiny. Visualise yourself throwing away that fear. And try to know yourself to be free of it. Affirmation: “I release my fears and allow myself to be filled with confidence and self trust.”

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“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.” John O’Donohue (1956-2008) Irish Philosopher

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DAILY REFLECTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

BY ROB BREZSNY | JANUARY 7, 2025 (Newcity.com)

Photo: Joel Filipe

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Charles Baudelaire said that if you want to fully activate your personal genius, you will reclaim and restore the intelligence you had as a child. You will empower it anew with all the capacities you have developed as an adult. I believe this is sensational advice for you in 2025. In my understanding of the astrological omens, you will have an extraordinary potential to use your mature faculties to beautifully express the wise innocence and lucid perceptions you were blessed with when you were young.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In many Asian myths, birds and snakes are depicted as adversaries. Their conflict symbolizes humanity’s problems in coordinating the concerns of earth and heaven. Desire may be at odds with morality. Unconscious motivations can be opposed to good intentions. Pride, self-interest and ambition might seem incompatible with spiritual aspirations, high-minded ideals, and the quest to transcend suffering. But here’s the good news for you, Taurus: In 2025, I suspect that birds and snakes will cooperate rather harmoniously. You and they will have stirring, provocative adventures together.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Using a fork to eat food was slow to gain acceptance in the Western world. Upper-class Europeans began to make it a habit in the eleventh century, but most common folk regarded it as a pretentious irrelevancy for hundreds of years. Grabbing grub with the fingers was perfectly acceptable. I suspect this scenario might serve as an apt metaphor for you in 2025. You are primed to be an early adapter who launches trends. You will be the first to try novel approaches and experiment with variations in how things have always been done. Enjoy your special capacity, Gemini. Be bold in generating innovations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined “peak experiences” as “rare, exciting, oceanic, deeply moving, exhilarating, elevating experiences that generate an advanced form of perceiving reality, and are even mystic and magical in their effect upon the experimenter.” The moment of falling in love is one example. Another may happen when a creative artist makes an inspiring breakthrough in their work. These transcendent interludes may also come from dreamwork, exciting teachings, walks in nature, and responsible drug use. (Read more here: tinyurl.com/PeakInterludes.) I bring these ideas to your attention, Cancerian, because I believe the months ahead will be prime time for you to cultivate and attract peak experiences.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your life in 2025 will be pretty free of grueling karmic necessity. You will be granted exemptions from cosmic compulsion. You won’t be stymied by the oppressive inertia of the past. To state this happy turn of events more positively, you will have clearance to move and groove with daring expansiveness. Obligations and duties won’t disappear, but they’re more likely to be interesting than boring and arduous. Special dispensations and kind favors will flow more abundantly than they have in a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of my most enjoyable goals in life has been to expunge my “isms.” I’m pleased that I have made dramatic progress in liquidating much of the perverse cultural conditioning that imprinted me as I was growing up. I’ve largely liberated myself from racism, sexism, classism, ableism, heteronormativity, looksism, and even egotism. How are you doing with that stuff, Virgo? The coming months will be a favorable time to work on this honorable task. What habits of mind and feeling have you absorbed from the world that are not in sync with your highest ideals?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s one of my predictions for you in 2025, Libra: You will reach the outer limits of your domain and then push on to explore beyond those limits. Here’s another prediction: You will realize with a pleasant shock that some old expectations about your destiny are too small, and soon you will be expanding those expectations. Can you handle one further mind-opening, soul-stretching prophecy? You will demolish at least one mental block, break at least one taboo, and dismantle an old wall that has interfered with your ability to give and receive love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you’re not married and would like to be, 2025 might be your best chance in years to find wedded bliss. If an existing intimate bond is less than optimal, the coming months will bring inspiration and breakthroughs to improve it. Let’s think even bigger and stronger, Scorpio, and speculate that you could be on the verge of all kinds of enhanced synergetic connections. I bet business and artistic partnerships will thrive if you decide you want them to. Links to valuable resources will be extra available if you work to refine your skills at collaboration and togetherness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I wonder how you will feel about the fact that I’m declaring 2025 to be the Year of the Muses for you Sagittarians. Will you be happy that I expect you to be flooded with provocative clues from inspiring influences? Or will you regard the influx of teachings and revelations as chaotic, confusing or inconvenient? In the hope you adopt my view, I urge you to expand your understanding of the nature of muses. They may be intriguing people, and might also take the form of voices in your head, ancestral mentors, beloved animals, famous creators or spirit guides.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Astrologers in ancient China had the appalling view that over two-thirds of all omens are negative, threatening or scary. I haven’t seen formal research into the biases of modern Western stargazers, but my anecdotal evidence suggests they tend to be equally pessimistic. I regard this as an unjustified travesty. My studies have shown that there is no such thing as an inherently ominous astrological configuration. All portents are revelations about how to successfully wrangle with our problems, perpetrate liberation, ameliorate suffering, find redemption and perform ingenious tweaks that liberate us from our mind-forged manacles. They always have the potential to help us discover the deeper meanings beneath our experiences. Everything I just said is essential for you to keep in mind during 2025.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Over the years, a few people who don’t know me well have accused me of “thinking too much” or “overthinking.” They are wrong. While I aspire to always be open to constructive criticism, I am sure that I don’t think too much. Not all my thoughts are magnificent, original and high-quality, of course; some are generated by fear and habit. However, I meticulously monitor the flow of all my thoughts and am skilled at knowing which ones I should question or not take seriously. The popular adage, “Don’t believe everything you think” is one of my axioms. In 2025, I invite you Aquarians to adopt my approach. Go right ahead and think as much as you want, even as you heighten your awareness of which of your thoughts are excellent and which are not.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m pleased, bordering on gleeful, that your homecoming is well underway. All the signs suggest that as 2025 unfolds, you will ripen the processes of deepening your roots and building a stronger foundation. As a result, I expect and predict that your levels of domestic bliss will reach unprecedented heights. You may even create a deeply fulfilled sense of loving yourself exactly as you are and feeling like you truly belong to the world you are surrounded by. Dear Pisces, I dare you to cultivate more peace of mind than you have ever managed to arouse. I double-dare you to update traditions whose emotional potency has waned.

Homework: Whether or not you believe in reincarnation, imagine that you lived another life. Where was it? Who were you? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com