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Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

Noah Giansiracusa on the Processes That Quantify Our Existence and the Steps We Can Take to Reclaim Our Humanity

By Noah Giansiracusa | August 12, 2025

Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

Leigh Claire La Berge Looks Back at the Digital Apocalypse That Wasn’t

By Leigh Claire La Berge | July 1, 2025

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Tom Comitta Explores the Country’s Literary Imagination As Revealed Through Public Opinion Polls and Surveys

By Tom Comitta | June 4, 2025

Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

Anna Farro Henderson Reflects on Romance, Distance, and Change as She Studies a Maine Marshland

By Anna Farro Henderson | November 11, 2024

Flukes, Fakes and Statistical Uncertainties: What Happens When Physicists Fail

Flukes, Fakes and Statistical Uncertainties: What Happens When Physicists Fail

Harry Cliff on the Slippery Nature of Probability in the Pursuit of Scientific Discovery

By Harry Cliff | March 26, 2024

How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights

How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on Immigration Policing in the Digital Age

By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández | February 1, 2024

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From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones on the Origins of Big Data

By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones | March 27, 2023

Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases

Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases

Woo-kyoung Ahn on the Link Between High Levels of Analytical Reasoning Skills and Biased Interpretations

By Woo-kyoung Ahn | September 15, 2022

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

By David Hackett Fischer | June 2, 2022

How the Threat of Abuse Silences Women Online

How the Threat of Abuse Silences Women Online

Nina Jankowicz on the Problem of Harassment and Self-Censorship

By Nina Jankowicz | May 6, 2022

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By Jer Thorp | May 6, 2021

35% of the world is reading more during the pandemic. Thanks, pandemic?

35% of the world is reading more during the pandemic. Thanks, pandemic?

By Walker Caplan | November 11, 2020

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