On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment.
Why Data Is Never Raw
|Feb 7, 2019
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Articles
The Hunt for Planet Nine
|Feb 6, 2019
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What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
Celebrating Black Inventors
|Feb 6, 2019
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African Americans have always been innovators, despite a long-discriminatory patent system.
Jump-Starting Life
|Feb 6, 2019
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How an ancient cataclysm may have sparked the beginning of life on Earth.
You Are Free to Take This Class
|Feb 5, 2019
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Peter Tse, a psych prof at Dartmouth, offers a new online course on free will.
Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory
|Feb 5, 2019
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Here’s why.
How Cold Is Cold?
|Feb 5, 2019
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The Polar Vortex was brutal, but not compared to the rest of the Universe.
How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time
|Feb 4, 2019
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Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.
Another Good Reason to Love Your Kids
|Feb 4, 2019
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Study shows that parental warmth in childhood yields to flourishing as an adult.
Taking Aliens Seriously
|Feb 3, 2019
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When a Harvard prof talks about extraterrestrial life, people listen.