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Part One: Why Denmark Dominates the World Happiness Report rankings, Year after Year is the title of an article at theconversation.com. We speak with author Marie Helweg-Larsen about her piece, and the cultural concept known as hygge. She even teaches us how to say it!
Part Two: A conversation with Prof. David Lazer. His piece, “The Science of Fake News,” at sciencemag.org couldn’t be more timely. He’s a distinguished professor of political science and information science at Northeastern University, as well as the co-director of the NU Lab of Texts, Maps, and Networks.
Fun Fact: Professor Lazer traces the first use of the term fake news back to 1925, in Harpers.
