As I write this final piece, classes have already concluded, which is both a bizarre and bittersweet feeling. I started Data Driven as a sophomore who didn’t know much about journalism. I knew I wanted...
I think it’s important to distinguish that it’s not a failure for women to leave academia or stop publishing their research: They might be moving into industry jobs, managerial roles or pivoting in another way that leads to less frequent publishing.
Sci-fi has the great power of making science feel cool. Maybe it straddles the line of nerdy a little too often, but ultimately you can’t convince me that the average person wouldn’t enjoy, even a little bit, being on a spaceship to Mars with fun little gadgets.
Social media and technology sometimes feels like this ambiguously large and evil boogeyman that grew out of control. I don’t think we could have ever guessed the consequences, and I worry that we won’t be able to control it now that it is so mainstream and infiltrated in our lives.
The relationship between individual autonomy and government power is one that the current administration seems very fixated on — only when it makes sense to them, of course.
Let’s say you want to get approval for a pill that has the potential to save lives, ensure better financial futures, break cycles of poverty and give people a chance at upward mobility.
What’s...
It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to recap the Nobel Prizes in my column: In 2023, I covered Claudia Goldin’s work in economics, and in 2024, I broke down the impact of AI on the Nobel Prize...
One of the most important legacies a person can leave behind is one of change — of irreparably breaking glass ceilings, challenging the status quo and reimagining our perception of longheld beliefs.
Jane...
It’s fall again, and I’m thinking about Franz Kafka.
Last year around this time, I read his work “Letters to Milena,” and if there is one thing Kafka can do well, it’s letter writing.
There...
I can barely get through a conversation without talking about AI.
Whether it’s someone talking about it with an almost religious fanaticism or simply just using it for task planning and questions,...
Reviving extinct species is humanity’s perpetual white whale: It dominates our collective imagination, helped by movies like Jurassic Park and other sci-fi media.
The theory states that while a lot of luxury items feel out of reach during this time, smaller and slightly more affordable luxuries still feel splurge-worthy and attainable.
