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You’re not as smart as you think you are

May 31, 2015 by Archived posts 51 Comments

By Jessica Arciniega |Staff Writer| Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Or better yet, are you smarter than a search engine? Searching online may make you think you’re smarter than you actually are, according to Matthew Fisher, a doctoral student in cognitive psychology at Yale University. People can search just about anything online instantaneously, leading them to believe they learned this knowledge themselves, despite relying on a search engine. “We think the information is leaking into our head, but really the information is stored somewhere else entirely,” said Fisher. Fisher explained that online searchers believe they took the time to search and become knowledgeable with … [Read more...] about You’re not as smart as you think you are

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: bing, Fisher, Google, intelligence, New England Journal of Medicine, perceived intelligence, robots, scholarly sources, search engine, technology, test, Yahoo

The Absolute Cheapest Way to Get Your Books

September 18, 2013 by Archived posts 31 Comments

By Phil Ruddle |News Editor| Buy all of your textbooks online this quarter and avoid the bookstore to save money. There are a lot of online sites you can go to purchase or rent a book whether it be digital or hard copy such as amazon and half.com, however websites with a universal search engine that are designed to find the cheapest prices for books is the way to go. Bigwords.com is the best search engine option because its sole purpose is to find the absolute cheapest way to get your book. All you do is type in the title of the textbook or the ISBN number, add all the books you want, go to your book-bag (shopping cart), and click start price comparison. BigWords then compares … [Read more...] about The Absolute Cheapest Way to Get Your Books

Filed Under: News Tagged With: amazon, bigwords, books, cheap textbooks, coyote chronicle, csusb, ebay, half.com, Jeff Sherwood, Kindle, Phil Ruddle, search engine, slugbooks, Texbooks, the ruddler, theruddler

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