Data
“In nonsense is strength”
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Where Did the Literacy Go?
Rose Horowitch is back with her hot takes. She grieves for math scores, mourns for student attention span, and, closest to my heart, she portends…
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Patagonia, Inc. challenges PRIDE
The camping equipment and clothing brand, Patagonia it taking the Drag performer “Pattie Gonia” to court. Patagonia’s complaints ring hollow. Let’s take a look at…
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10 Predictions for 2026 and Beyond
Wonder how the economy, technology, and social media will play out in 2026? Read these 10 predictions, and you’ll be forewarned and forearmed. They’re like…
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You Are What You Read
Dan speed-read over 3,000 books during his life and meticulously recorded every one of them. Now he’s a social media star.
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Let’s Talk About Libraries
If you didn’t read “SEX” in a funny voice, then you don’t know me at all. Libraries are taking the heat for having explicit material…
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Why Programmers and Artists Can’t Agree on AI
AI has become a hard-to-avoid topic these days and one of the biggest sticking points is its threat to creative works.
We can’t see or feel data and it doesn’t really exist in the temporal world. Yet every moment, data describes the world we perceive. It has the power to guide our decisions and bring us wisdom – but first, it’s nonsense. If we interpret it right, we can turn nonsense into strength.
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Where Did the Literacy Go?
Rose Horowitch is back with her hot takes. She grieves for math scores, mourns for student attention span, and, closest to my heart, she portends the horrors of a post-literate society. Meanwhile, the legislative branch…
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Patagonia, Inc. challenges PRIDE
The camping equipment and clothing brand, Patagonia it taking the Drag performer “Pattie Gonia” to court. Patagonia’s complaints ring hollow. Let’s take a look at intellectual property laws and see why the brand thinks it…
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Fiction is Real
The US is at war again, and it’s starting to seem like news stories are straight out of fiction. I would argue they are.
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Advice for a Broken Emoji Heart
Apple’s overactive software updates left me with a dilemma. How do we communicate the whole gamut of love, friendship, and respect with the emojis on our phones? In this special Valentine’s Day installment of Analyze…
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ICE is the Worst of Us
Another day, another deadly ICE shootings. The nation is, once again, in disbelief over the federal government’s use of unnecessary force. Let’s take a look at how we can use empathy to help us understand…