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Sociology

Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

A lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles.

March 13, 2019

The Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt on politics, morality, and the coddling of the American mind.

March 6, 2019

Watch and See: The Medium Really Is the Message

How communication technologies shaped the arts and sciences.

February 20, 2019

Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think

Two philosophers of science diagnose our age of fake news.

How We’ll Forget John Lennon

Our culture has two types of forgetting.

January 9, 2019

The Problem with Scientific Credit

Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize.

Geology Makes You Time-Literate

A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness.

September 12, 2018

The Euclidean Metrics of Trump’s Twitter Account

How online personalities are quantified and compared.

August 28, 2018

Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me

Why Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science.

August 22, 2018

Eating for Peace

How cuisine bridges cultures.

July 2, 2018

What a Russian Smile Means

How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different.

June 19, 2018

Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?

John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud.

May 29, 2018