156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
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152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
The internet has made it so much easier for people to talk to each other, in a literal sense. But
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don’t See
It’s a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the
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114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World
Sexuality is, and always has been, a topic that is endlessly fascinating but also contentious. You might think that asexuality
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113 | Cailin O’Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness
You can’t always get what you want, as a wise person once said. But we do try, even when someone
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108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit
We are living, in case you haven’t noticed, in a world full of bullshit. It’s hard to say whether the
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100 | Solo: On Life and Its Meaning
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91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence
If one of the ambitious goals of philosophy is to determine the meaning of life, one of the ambitious goals
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86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe
Anyone who has read histories of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1983 nuclear false alarm,