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    The Boundaries of Artificial Emotional Intelligence If our virtual assistants and emotional laborers are all turning out to be soothing, female-voiced AI, will it close certain gaps for human women? Or will it ratify them?

    Your Classroom Is Making You Fail Almost everyt traditional classroom design makes it harder to learn–yet the fixes are often simple.

    Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets–Are You OK With That? As researchers, we have a responsibility to acknowledge that factors like the type of data, the creator of that data, and our intended use for the data are important when it comes to using public information.

    Chasing Virality Brought Us Fake News, Now Everything’s on Fire By uncritically embedding itself into social networks, did the media actually usher in the era of fake news?

    To Board a Cruise Ship–and Never Get Off Meet the retirees who never stop moving.

    The Human Machine

    A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
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    The ID Question

    Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
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    The Roots of an Epidemic

    From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.
    Paula Akugizibwe
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    Beats: Space

    Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

    Beats: Food

    Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

    Beats: Disability

    “Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

    Beats: Health

    Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

    The Gut and the Spreadsheet: How Fashion Forecasting Really Works

    The science of fashion has become big business.
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    Giving Everyone the Chance to Be Their Own Radio Station

    Taking radio back to its roots as the most widespread form of mass media.
    Stephen Abbot Pugh
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    YouTube Has Made Asian-Americans Impossible for Hollywood to Ignore

    Asian-American representation has always been an issue–but it’s YouTube that’s finally fueling the momentum now.
    Karen Hao
    Oct 13, 2016 10 min read