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Humanizing Data: Highlights from EYEO 2018

A dispatch from the 2018 edition of the conference on technology and culture.
Duncan Geere
Jun 14, 2018 2 min read

How Ad Men Invented the Future

While the war continued, brands were keen to stay in the public consciousness, giving Americans hope for the future; they promised...
Darren Garrett
Jun 13, 2018 7 min read

How We (Don’t) Talk About Climate Change

It's hard to spur people to climate change action when nothing dramatic is happening - but it's equally hard to do...
Elizabeth Minkel
Jun 7, 2018 3 min read

Measuring Global Health with the DALY

A better statistic would balance both death and disability, weighting factors like duration of illness, severity of disability, distribution across a...
Duncan Geere
May 31, 2018 2 min read

A Visual History of the Future

Decades ago, artists' imaginings formed high expectations about the world to come. Were these just fantasies–or was it the work of...
Darren Garrett
May 30, 2018 1 min read

The Beginning of the Future

But by the 19th century, global imperialism had shrunk those "uncharted" spaces. At the same time, rapid advances in science and...
Darren Garrett
May 30, 2018 7 min read

Scientists Don’t Have a Monopoly On Objective Thinking

I wish that the STEM fields weren't so cloistered from the rest of the academy, and by extension, I wish STEM...
Elizabeth Minkel
May 24, 2018 1 min read

When Charts Go Weird: The Joy of Xenographics

Xenographics can be fun alternatives to the classic bar, line, and pie chart trio–but they can also be more effective for...
Duncan Geere
May 17, 2018 2 min read

Let’s Not (Accidentally) Build Depressed Robots

In trying to build machines that can experience "real" emotions, we might end up creating intelligent beings as mentally fragile as...
Alok Jha
May 10, 2018 3 min read

Your Great-Grandson’s Genetic Privacy

You might not worry about your genetic information being exposed. But are you willing to make that choice for your descendants?
Elizabeth Minkel
May 3, 2018 2 min read
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