March 18 – 22
FOLWON* guest poster Brooke Borel introduces the world to the bed bug hockey stick graph. Read it and you will understand why data journalism is about to change the world.
That’s highly relevant for Erika’s post, because as she tells us, you only have control over your data until you become a patient. What’s more, as she informed us in February, in the age of Big Data, there is no way to keep patient information anonymous.
Christie tells us about invisible flu, the kind that leaves you symptom-free –and dangerous.
Beer is the new wine. Or so we think. Heather tells us that the Natufians knew that 13,000 years ago.
Have you ever wondered who holds the patents on the atom bomb? That’s only the least crazy thing in Ann’s post about what might be the most sinister conspiracy of the atomic age.
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