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welcome to the good news ride home for wed, August 12th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

The rumor clinics that combated fake news during World War II, how scientists have turned ordinary

bricks into supercapacitors, why some groceries are still tough to come by,

and your chance to have a sleepover at the last remaining blockbuster in the world.

Here are some cool things from the news today.

Between QAnon and Pizza Gate, plus just deepfakes and filter bubble-fueled echo chambers,

it is easy to feel like we're living in an especially volatile moment of misinformation.

But the tendency to believe and spread misinformation, rumors, or conspiracy theories is hardly new. Sure, the internet and corporate-run algorithms

are exacerbating things quite a bit, but they're only pumping up what is already human nature.

And at some point, I want to dive a bit deeper into some humans' tendencies towards superstition

and magical thinking. I started this election cycle reading Kurt Anderson's fantasy land about

Americans in particular's tendency toward individualistic and skeptical types of superstitious thinking.

But honestly, the book got a bit too real as the pandemic wore on, so I set it aside for a bit.

But today, I don't want to get into all of that. Today I want to talk about one

of the ways that this type of spread of misinformation was combated back during World War II.

To begin with, here are just some of the rumors that were circulating around the United States in the

1940s, quoting mental floss. There was one about a lady whose head exploded

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