Business Piketty and 100 researchers: inequality is getting worse, and will continue to worsen Cory Doctorow
scholarship Terrorism is way, way down, except in countries torn apart by civil war, often where the US has sent occupying troops Cory Doctorow
Science New York's rat population has genetically diverged into "uptown" and "downtown" subpopulation Cory Doctorow
scholarship How an influential economics paper used imaginary environmental overregulation to spur low-density luxury housing Cory Doctorow
privacy Australia is a world leader in internet usage and bad internet policies, so Australians want better policies Cory Doctorow
Science For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science Cory Doctorow
class war Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened Cory Doctorow
privacy Web analytics companies offer "replay sessions" that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users Cory Doctorow
politics Study finds that people vote for strongman "dominance" leaders when they they feel out of control of their lives Cory Doctorow
health Survey: 23 percent of Zurich doctors prescribe homeopathy, but many of them believe it to be a placebo Cory Doctorow
uk "Economic murder": Senior UK public health researchers say 120,000 people died under Tory austerity Cory Doctorow
Science 65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each Cory Doctorow
web theory Social media's "engagement"-based algorithms are intrinsically hospitable to conspiracies and fake news Cory Doctorow
privacy A quantitative analysis of doxing: who gets doxed, and how can we detect doxing automatically? Cory Doctorow
scholarship Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel Cory Doctorow
