This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call
By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]
Monthly Archives: July 2020
How Viruses Evolve
By Bob Holmes Knowable Magazine The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By […]
What Science Can do for Democracy
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype, and It Creates Inequality for All
By Viet Thanh Nguyen Time The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on […]
The Incoherence of “Cancel Culture” Accusations
By Nicholas Grossman Arc Digital Here’s the critique: You say you value free speech and oppose social penalties for bad speech, but your actions show that you don’t. You value […]
Thousands of U.S. Judges Who Broke Laws, Oaths Remained on the Bench
By Michael Berens & John Shiffman Reuters Judge Les Hayes is among thousands of state and local judges across America who were allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and […]
Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog & Franklin G. Miller Journal of the American Medical Association As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abates in many countries worldwide, and […]
Private Gain, Public Loss
By Alon Harel Aeon Barbara and Mary are happily married. Barbara wants to buy Mary a new ring for her birthday. The problem is that Barbara knows nothing about jewellery. […]
