Fact Finders Prints

Tree of Knowledge. Tree of Commonly Accepted Misconceptions.

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Before the Internet

Funky Facts: Football.

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

Reporter #6: television.

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

We have a problem with your research. We're Encyclopedia Britannica and you're Wikipedia.

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

The Expert

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

'Did you know there's a river in Brazil named after Amazon?'

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

The Month of July

"Please, Lord, enough already."

'Washington has wooden teeth? -- how did you find that out?', 'It came out in conversation.'

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

Funky Facts: Turtles.

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

Funky Facts: Elephants.

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

Library. Story Hour. This fact-checking site says no cow has ever jumped over the moon.

'There are facts,there are factoids, and there are just plain fun facts.'

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

Conspiracy theories

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

"So ants can lift twenty times their body weight. Big deal. Who can't?"

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

Did you know a stretched-out intestine can reach all the way to the vending machines> Boy, you learn something new every surgery.