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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

Law & Justice, Politics

Digital Culture Wars

Contemporary American politics privileges policing and punishment, while marginalizing the arts and the commons.

Frank Pasquale

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

The Networked Era: An Interview with Michael Nielsen

Why discussion boards and online marketplaces can make it easier for scientists to pool their data and find far-flung collaborators.

Michael Nielsen, Lindsey Gilbert

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Big Brother Buys a GPS

New Challenges to the Fourth Amendment.

Pamela S. Karlan

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Cheating Death

Philosophers ponder the afterlife.

Alex Byrne

Class & Inequality, Podcast

The Promise of Ethical Consumption

An Ideas Matter event held at MIT on November 3, 2011

Dara O’Rourke, Scott Nova, Richard Locke, Jens Hainmueller

Arts in Society, Global Justice

We Are All Khaled Said

An Interview with the Administrators of the Facebook Page that Fueled the Egyptian Revolution.

Anver M. Emon, Ellen Lust, Audrey Macklin

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

What Would Emma Do?

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

Vivian Gornick, David V. Johnson

Politics, Science & Nature

Unfair Advantages

Selling asymmetric war at the Unmanned Vehicle Systems trade show.

Joseph Nevins

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Bugger Off

Spying Online Is Perilous and Unnecessary.

Evgeny Morozov

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

Revaluing the Book

An Interview with Richard Nash.

Richard Nash, Matt Runkle

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

What’s in a Name?

A Case for Pseudonyms

Jillian C. York

Science & Nature

Thinking in an Emergency

An Interview with Elaine Scarry

David V. Johnson

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