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Atticus Fins

From an interview with David Shiffman, a marine conservation biologist at Arizona State University, conducted in February by Lisa Margonelli for The Ongoing Transformation, a podcast. david shiffman: When most…

Odd Odds

From a preprint study posted on the Cornell University open-access archive arXiv in October that was conducted by researchers at more than a dozen European universities. A group of forty-eight…

Objectivity

by Hari Kunzru,

Facts, notoriously, do not care about our feelings. They are not subjective, but objective. The “I” who experiences emotion is located in time and space, the owner of a single…

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by Justin Sullivan,

Captive Markets

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

Statistically Significant Others

by Deborah Lupton,

From descriptions of sex-tracking apps included in “Quantified Sex,” an article by Deborah Lupton, an Australian sociologist, that was published in the April 2015 issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality.

Counter Culture

by Caleb Crain,

Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

Captive Market

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Monte Reel,

Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side

Jurists’ prudence

by Melvin Schweitzer,

The luckiest woman on earth

by Nathaniel Rich,

Three ways to win the lottery