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Race, Science & Nature

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Amy Moran-Thomas

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Science & Nature

Are We Really "Alone Together"?

Middle-class Americans have alternatively immersed themselves in and withdrawn from public urban spaces.

Claude S. Fischer

Science & Nature

Privacy is Not Dead—It's Inevitable

The internet has become an environment of total tracking and total control.

Neil M. Richards

Forum

Saving Privacy

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Reed Hundt

Science & Nature

India's Big Brother Project

The World's Largest Biometrics Identity Program

Malavika Jayaram

Science & Nature

Eco-Puritans

The urban left’s eco-puritanism takes many forms. 

Claude S. Fischer

Science & Nature

Big Tobacco Abroad

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the downside to free trade.

Sean McElwee

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Letting Go of Normal

It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of 'genes for X' or a nature/nurture balance.  

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

Claude S. Fischer

Science & Nature

Stop and Look

Geocaching invites you to consider spaces normally relegate to the blur of background scenery.

Matthew Fishbane

Politics, Race

Soft Power in Nigeria

The U.S. is funding development in restive Northern Nigeria, but soft power isn't blunting anti-American sentiments.

Ameto Akpe

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Dogs Are Not People

On Gregory Berns's How Dogs Love Us.

Colin Dayan

Global Justice, Science & Nature

Obama's Surveillance Reforms

We are at a critical point in the history of our civil liberties.

Neil M. Richards

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