How to Research in the Age of AI
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed book Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of American food as a way to access stories of women, immigrants, and people of color, and to address issues of racism, sexism, and xenophobia. Her work has been featured inTheWall Street Journal andThe New York Times, as well as onAll Things Considered; and she has presented across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. She is also 1/2 of the Masters of Social Gastronomy, a monthly food science and history talk at Caveat NYC, with Brainery co-founder Jonathan Soma.
Location: Prospect Heights Brainery (190 Underhill Ave in Prospect Heights, BK)
In this primer on researching, we'll cover:
- How to do an effective Google search, remove AI features, and dig into Google's lesser-known databases.
- What AI tools are effective and worth the money
- How to spot a good source and verify it, as well as fact check a bad one.
- How to check that an image or video is real, not AI generated
- How to access academic articles and scientific studies (and why you should).
- How to find historical figures using Ancestry.com and Newspaper databases.
- When you need to go to the library or the archive (and when you don’t).
In this class, you'll learn all the skills you need to research non-fiction, look up information for your next novel, and even how to find the truth behind a suspicious social media post.
