Thought Provoking Reads
Provocative and interesting articles from around the web.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
WIRED
Seeing Through Silicon Valley’s Shameless ‘Disruption’
4 min read · 2019-07-28 · Finally we are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsibility looks like. It ain’t magical.
The Washington Post
She went undercover to expose an insane asylum’s horrors. Now Nellie Bly is getting her due.
2019-07-28 · Bly, a female pioneer in 19th century journalism, will be honored with a monument in New York City.
cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk
Too unique to hide
2019-07-25 · According to research by UCLouvain and Imperial College London, I have 83% chances of being correctly re-identified in a sampled and anonymized dataset. What about you?
nature
Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models
20+ min read · 2019-07-23 · Anonymization has been the main means of addressing privacy concerns in sharing medical and socio-demographic data. Here, the authors estimate the likelihood that a specific person can be re…
The Irish Times
The life and tragic death of Trinity graduate and writer Sophie Hingst
~12 min read · 2019-07-27 · The 31-year-old German blogger had denied claims that she invented 22 Holocaust victims in her family
The Cut
The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap
20+ min read · 2019-07-23 · A law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?
Bloomberg CityLab
Here Are the Urban Highways That Deserve to Die
6 min read · From 2019 · The Congress for New Urbanism once again lists the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down.
Bloomberg CityLab
Mapping the Effects of the Great 1960s 'Freeway Revolts'
5 min read · 2019-07-23 · The urbanites who battled the construction of the Interstate Highway System may have saved some neighborhoods—but the highways came anyway.
Pacific Standard
What Dollar Stores Really Do to Neighborhoods
6 min read · 2019-07-17 · Some cities are trying to ban or limit discount retailers, in the hopes that supermarkets with more healthy food options will move in.
BBC News (World)
Sonny Liston: The mysterious death that haunts boxing
~15 min read · 2019-07-16 · Sonny Liston was found dead at his Las Vegas home in 1971. A coroner concluded he died of natural causes - but some say the truth is darker.
The New York Times
The Gold Rush for Private Health Data
5 min read · 2019-07-06 · Data as personal property that you can choose to sell is a tempting but bad idea.
The New York Times
The World According to Mad Magazine
6 min read · 2019-07-13 · Grown-ups who worried it was a subversive influence on America’s youth were 100 percent correct.
Scientific American
Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland
3 min read · 2019-07-11 · Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk
The Economist
British Jews trace Iberian heritage to retain EU citizenship
2 min read · 2019-07-02 · Who might help Remainers keep EU passports? Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition
