Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly that. Using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the facia...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flashing blue lights. Panic does not set in, however, b...
Over one month after the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate about the proper policy response is still raging on. If that seems unusual, that’s because it is—the staying power of even ...
Over one month after the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate about the proper policy response is still raging on. If that seems unusual, that’s because it is—the staying power of even ...
The New York City Subway system is in a state of complete disarray. Currently, only 65 percent of subway trains arrive at their destination on time, the lowest on-time performance in decades. In March 2017 alone, there were 78,500 subway delays, a 14...
The New York City Subway system is in a state of complete disarray. Currently, only 65 percent of subway trains arrive at their destination on time, the lowest on-time performance in decades. In March 2017 alone, there were 78,500 subway delays, a 14...
Any family that decides to surf channels on the TV to watch the news, sports, or a movie in the fall of an election year will undoubtedly be inundated with political advertisements. With an especially contentious midterm on the horizon, one can expec...
Any family that decides to surf channels on the TV to watch the news, sports, or a movie in the fall of an election year will undoubtedly be inundated with political advertisements. With an especially contentious midterm on the horizon, one can expec...
Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the general population) and underrepresented in stories about poverty, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) ...
Since the 1960s, America has vaunted Asians as the nation’s model minority. Simultaneously overrepresented at Harvard (relative to the general population) and underrepresented in stories about poverty, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) ...
California’s housing crisis is well-documented. Palo Alto, home to Stanford, offers subsidized housing assistance for any household with an annual income of less than $250,000. In the Bay Area, even doctors and lawyers are struggling to afford ...
California’s housing crisis is well-documented. Palo Alto, home to Stanford, offers subsidized housing assistance for any household with an annual income of less than $250,000. In the Bay Area, even doctors and lawyers are struggling to afford ...
As the recent sex abuse trial of former United States Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar unfolded, it became apparent that there existed for years a widespread web of enablers, cover-ups, and institutional failures that allowed Nassar to continue abus...
As the recent sex abuse trial of former United States Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar unfolded, it became apparent that there existed for years a widespread web of enablers, cover-ups, and institutional failures that allowed Nassar to continue abus...
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of Pittsburgh—the iconic country-rocker Willie Nelson offered words of celebration and encouragement: “We’ve been i...
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of Pittsburgh—the iconic country-rocker Willie Nelson offered words of celebration and encouragement: “We’ve been i...
It looks like any other government website: Just visually unappealing enough to give the impression of fluorescent lights in a waiting room, the icons just a little off center. The image in the center of the page is of a female doctor wearing a lab c...
It looks like any other government website: Just visually unappealing enough to give the impression of fluorescent lights in a waiting room, the icons just a little off center. The image in the center of the page is of a female doctor wearing a lab c...
Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year would make major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Currently, SNAP recipients receive a budget each month to spend on an array of foods. But Trump instead hopes ...
Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year would make major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Currently, SNAP recipients receive a budget each month to spend on an array of foods. But Trump instead hopes ...
On March 6, 1998 Bill Clinton signed the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant College Program, an act providing 33 colleges with grants for marine research and conservation. Hidden within the bill, which passed both the House and Senate without ...
On March 6, 1998 Bill Clinton signed the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant College Program, an act providing 33 colleges with grants for marine research and conservation. Hidden within the bill, which passed both the House and Senate without ...
Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations. This is largely due to Amazon’s promise to create nearly 50,000 jobs and invest $5 billion in its new campus. Th...
Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations. This is largely due to Amazon’s promise to create nearly 50,000 jobs and invest $5 billion in its new campus. Th...
Mobile payment, facilitated by services like Chase QuickDeposit and Citi Electronic Check Deposit (ECD), has exploded recently. It’s estimated that for the last seven years, online banking enjoyed a 4 percent annual growth rate, with 66 million hou...
Mobile payment, facilitated by services like Chase QuickDeposit and Citi Electronic Check Deposit (ECD), has exploded recently. It’s estimated that for the last seven years, online banking enjoyed a 4 percent annual growth rate, with 66 million hou...