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Something Doesn’t Add Up The Maddening Math of Crime Shows

Crunching the numbers on a crime show that’s supposed to be about math

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Self-Storage How Data Sharing Is Driving Medical Care

Data sharing is driving medical care, and we should all opt in.

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Magician, Heal Thyself!

When I first started writing a book about the self-help industry, I was skeptical but willing to be open-minded about the idea that people could...

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The Complexion Question Defining Race Has Never Been Easy

A multiracial writer traverses space and time to find the definitive answer to, “What are you?”

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Time Frame

This photographer compressed dozens of moments on the highway into one image.

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No Safety in Numbers A New Way to Treat Sex Offenders

Are registries the worst way to manage convicted sex offenders?

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Some Type of Influence or Control

An artist’s obsession with drawing the connections between Swiss banks, global terrorists, and U.S. politicians

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Bit by Bit

Claude Shannon created the theory we use to communicate everything in the digital age. James Gleick is trying to quantify all that communication.

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Identity Crisis

Is transgender teens’ desire to switch their sex a mental disorder that needs treatment, or is it the rest of society that has a problem?

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The Red Scare

Osama bin Laden is dead, but the awkward, nonspecific system for measuring our collective fear remains.

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Our Data, Ourselves

There's something comforting about cold, hard facts. That which can be counted and measured. Incontrovertible truths.

Out in the Open Private Data, Going Public

Most of the data we generate is in private hands, but that's starting to change.