January 29, 2008 – Part 3
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
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🗓️ 29 January 2008
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
8pm: Does searching the internet for information actually make you any smarter? New studies seem to show that we all use the internet to confirm what we already believe, instead of correcting our wrong theses. Also: Actress Sean Young thrown out of the DGA's for (alleged) drunken heckling
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| 0:00.0 | This is TBTL with Loop Burbank on NewsTalk 710 Cairo. |
| 0:09.0 | I heard the jury still out on science. |
| 0:12.0 | Huh? |
| 0:14.0 | Strange, quirky, revealing, and you know in some cases totally false. |
| 0:23.0 | It's TBTL on NewsTalk 710 Cairo. |
| 0:28.0 | Our new website is mynorthwest.com slash TBTL. |
| 0:33.0 | It's mynorthwest.com slash TBTL or you can always get to us through TBTL.net. |
| 0:41.0 | You know on this show, oftentimes during this show when we are stumped by something, |
| 0:49.0 | we'll just google it right then and there. |
| 0:53.0 | I can't even count the number of times mid-conversations in the UNI. |
| 0:57.0 | We'll hit upon some fact we don't know. |
| 1:00.0 | And you'll just start googling it in your little news booth there. |
| 1:05.0 | And we'll figure it out or at least we'll get what the internets say about it. |
| 1:10.0 | Right. |
| 1:11.0 | You know there's so much information out there. |
| 1:14.0 | But there's a really, I think important question now considering the fact that Wikipedia has become the number one research tool |
| 1:22.0 | for most Americans that have a computer. |
| 1:25.0 | And the question is, is all this information on the internet? |
| 1:30.0 | Is it actually making us smarter? |
| 1:33.0 | Or are we more informed as a result of it? |
| 1:36.0 | Or are we just kind of confirming our own crackpot theories? |
| 1:41.0 | Or maybe not crackpot. |
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