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Introduction Hi everyone, We know that the announcement on the morning of March 10th instructing us to leave campus shattered many of us. Over the past few weeks, we’ve all been adjusting to a new …
After a year and a half of pipetting, running gels, and peering through microscopes, I finally submitted my undergraduate thesis last month. In it, I was looking at the role that particular proteins played in …
In the words of the World Health Organization’s director-general, the world is currently fighting not only a pandemic, but also an “infodemic.” Approximately 46,000 tweets per day were linked to inaccurate information in March 2020 …
Your data isn’t private, even if it’s anonymous. In 2006, AOL publicly released 20 million anonymized search logs. That same year, Netflix released 100 million anonymized movie ratings of its users. In both cases, researchers …
As COVID-19 forces us to restructure nearly every aspect of our daily lives, many of us have found ourselves searching for meaningful ways to spend our time. As Harvard College first-year and HTR editor Nikhil …
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford and Harvard students launched the Crown Education Challenge, a global contest for K-12 students backed by Professor Tina Seelig, Lisa Solomon, and other notable educators and thought leaders. …
When UNC professor Zeynep Tufekci began watching Donald Trump rallies on YouTube, she noticed something odd. [1] YouTube began recommending and auto-playing extremist content—white supremacist videos, Holocaust denials, etc. In 2015 Twitter began sorting its …
“Zurquul Grug’Nam.” Cliff sounded out the unfamiliar syllables, stroking his short red beard. “Zurquul Grug’Nam. Wonder what it means.” “Ssh!” Howard was almost six inches taller than Cliff, clean-shaven, and muscular. “Don’t say that! You …
The greatest threat to our democracy is not foreign interference in elections, or political polarization, or fake news. It is our voter turnout. A democracy is supposed to be a system of government by the …
Editor’s Note: The following piece features guest writers Aayushi Jain and Anika Nayak, interns at the Stanford Brainstorm Laboratory, who spoke to Stanford University faculty about the nation’s first-ever university-level course on mental health innovation. …
In 2008, when Obama cruised past his better connected, better known rival Hillary Clinton, and defeated John McCain to take the presidency, he made history by using social media and the internet to directly interact …
Last semester, our staff writer Nikita published a piece on computational psychiatry, which analyzes the upstream and downstream ramifications of novel mental health technologies. In this piece, I want to focus on a mental health …
Analyzing how software solutions for the high-fashion industry can put creativity back in style. A few weeks back, the fashion industry obsessed over Prada’s announcement that Raf Simons, previously creative director at Dior and Calvin …
The doctor pressed his finger against the flesh of her temple, searching for something. He was a kind, older man, on the verge of retirement, maybe, but with eyes as sharp as hers. Maybe even …
“There you are! Enrico! Hey – Enrico!” His face furrowed in even more intense concentration than usual, Enrico whirled around, startled. “Huh? Oh, yes. Jim. Hello.” “We’ve been wondering where you were for the past …
Alfred Lerner Hall, where Real World Crypto 2020 took place. The Real World Crypto Symposium (often abbreviated as RWC) is an annual, 3-day conference for applied cryptography research organized by the International Association for Cryptologic …
You’re sitting in your room, browsing your favorite website. A Buzzfeed Tasty video sits at the top of your feed, and the thumbnail intrigues you, so you spend a few minutes watching the creation of …
This article was drawn from an interview with Matthew Battles, an associate director of metaLAB, and has been edited for clarity. What motivated Curricle? The motivation for Curricle came out of a conversation we had …
When I think about the field of computational psychiatry, I imagine a robot sitting opposite a highly emotional teen, cross-legged with a pen and notebook in arm. The robot tries to console the kid with …
Inside LVMH’s annual sustainability report, & how it is and isn’t leveraging technology. Last month, I had the absolute pleasure of attending LVMH’s annual sustainability conference in New York City, “Future Life”. As one of …