"Food deserts", long-trumpeted as a major cause of unhealthy eating for poor households, are dead. Or at least they should be. The newest study on this topic by Allcott, Diamond, and Dube is extremely ...

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Viking, 352 pages, $28 A famous song from Avenue Q, the celebrated Broadway puppet musical, ...

Dr. Steve Bellovin is professor of computer science at Columbia University, where he researches "networks, security, and why the two don't get along." He is the author of Thinking Security and the ...

Do you know anyone in your life who often points the finger at others for being biased and yet is completely unaware of their own biased opinions? The answer is most likely yes. “You are biased, not ...

The standards of professionalism, according to American grassroots organizer-scholars Tema Okun and Keith Jones, are heavily defined by white supremacy culture—or the systemic, institutionalized ...

Source: Ataturk.svg: Nevit Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Many on the American left, having suffered a resounding defeat in the 2024 presidential election, have recently expressed a ...

“As every other cable news show jumped on the story of Paul Manafort surrendering to the FBI Monday, Fox and Friends decided to tackle the real issue of the day: cheeseburger emojis,” the New York ...

A few years ago I wrote about research showing how biased stock images tend to be. This results in searches for "engineer" returning predominantly male images, and searches for "cleaner" returning ...

Sexual dimorphism in gene expression is widespread across organisms and genomes. Genes with sex-biased expression, especially those with male-biased expression, tend to evolve rapidly in both protein ...