Busy season, but still reading and finding some of the good stuff. The Hairy Arm Unlike what I usually post here, this entry is something I re-discovered after having forgotten its exact name for several years. Over that time, I know I tried...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read this week. The Cheats Movement Podcast, One-On-One With Tom Perriello (Candidate for Governor of Virginia) (March 16, 2017) Refreshing to hear a white US...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Cathy O'Neil, How to think statistically (about dieting) (March 13, 2017) Here’s the golden standard: if you can come up with something...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Joy Buolamwini, InCoding — In the Beginning (May 16, 2016) Whoever codes the system, embeds her views. A call for inclusive code. By the...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Sam Altman, What I Heard From Trump Supporters (February 21, 2017) Eileen Reynolds, What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Lara Zarum, PBS Affiliate to Live-Stream 1963 James Baldwin Documentary ‘Take This Hammer’ Ahead of the Oscars (February 23, 2017) For...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. The Public Domain Review: W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) (February 11, 2017) Du Bois —...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Julia Slige, What Programming Languages Are Used Most on Weekends? (February 7, 2017) A good first pass over a new dataset is a...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Sheila Weller. How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case. On a steamy hot September day in 1955, in...