Fiona Hill
David Holmes
Which came first: society or a fear of god?
Religion is a fundamental feature of humanity, but did our ancestors need it to form complex societies?…
Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds
Police militarization neither reduces rates of violent crime nor changes the number of officers assaulted or killed, a new study finds. It is arguably the nation’s first systematic analysis on the use and consequences of militarized police forces.
To beat Vegas bookies at the World Cup, these statisticians turned to artificial intelligence
After cleaning up at the 2014 World Cup, statistician Andreas Groll is enlisting machine learning to keep his lucky streak going…
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My daughter escaped being a scary health statistic. Here’s what I learned.
When Elizabeth Silver's daughter was 6 weeks old, she suffered a serious stroke and spent weeks in the NICU. Confronted with damning statistics, Silver began to see the numbers as one version of a story, with room for interpretation. The…
On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, we bring you “Sandtown by the Numbers,” a special series of reports on life in Sandtown-Winchester, the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested on April 12.
Paul Oyer is an Ivy League-educated economist, but everything he ever needed to learn about economics he learned from online dating. In this adaptation from his new book, he explains how, as a separated man re-entering the dating scene, he…
Unemployment: Addressing a Worsening 'Human Disaster' in U.S.
Hans Rosling Brings Life, Humor, Sword-Swallowing to Global Health Statistics…
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