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Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Amy Moran-Thomas
Middle-class Americans have alternatively immersed themselves in and withdrawn from public urban spaces.
Claude S. Fischer
The internet has become an environment of total tracking and total control.
Neil M. Richards
Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.
Reed Hundt
The World's Largest Biometrics Identity Program
Malavika Jayaram
The urban left’s eco-puritanism takes many forms.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the downside to free trade.
Sean McElwee
It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of 'genes for X' or a nature/nurture balance.
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.
Geocaching invites you to consider spaces normally relegate to the blur of background scenery.
Matthew Fishbane
The U.S. is funding development in restive Northern Nigeria, but soft power isn't blunting anti-American sentiments.
Ameto Akpe
On Gregory Berns's How Dogs Love Us.
Colin Dayan
We are at a critical point in the history of our civil liberties.
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