Hitting the Books: High school students have spent a decade fighting Baltimore's toxic legacyIt's 2023, we're the richest country on the planet, why are we still burning our trash?By A. Tarantola, 01.29.2023
Hitting the Books: That time San Francisco's suburbs sued the airport for being too loudNIMBYism has a long and storied history in the Bay Area.By A. Tarantola, 01.22.2023
Hitting the Books: How to build a music recommendation 'information-space-beast'There's a planet's worth of tunes 'data alchemist' Glenn McDonald want to help you find.By A. Tarantola, 01.15.2023
Hitting the Books: America might not exist if not for a pre-Revolution smallpox outbreakMobilizing public support for inoculation helped galvanize the movement towards independence.By A. Tarantola, 12.11.2022
Hitting the Books: AI is already reshaping air travel, will airports themselves be next?Or, 'Why there aren't any tchotchke shops in private terminals.'By A. Tarantola, 12.04.2022
Hitting the Books: Social media's long, pointless war against sex on the internetUnsurprisingly, society's most vulnerable populations are those most harmed by these policies. By A. Tarantola, 11.27.2022
Hitting the Books: How Dave Chappelle and curious cats made Roomba a household nameNothing like having a world famous comedian and the internet's favorite animal hawking your wares.By A. Tarantola, 11.20.2022
Hitting the Books: AI could help shrink America's gender wage gapUsing bots to negotiate salaries would ignore social stigmas that hinder women's earning potential. By A. Tarantola, 10.30.2022
Hitting the Books: The fall 2022 reading listShorter days means more time for literature in the evenings!By A. Tarantola, 10.20.2022
Hitting the Books: The women who made ENIAC more than a weaponYou've never heard of them because, really, nobody has.By A. Tarantola, 10.16.2022
Hitting the Books: Steve Jobs' iPhone obsession led to Apple's silicon revolutionMany of the chips "Designed by Apple in California" are now manufactured exclusively in Taiwan. By A. Tarantola, 10.09.2022
Hitting the Books: What the wearables of tomorrow might look likeEntire wardrobes crashing whenever AWS goes down.By A. Tarantola, 10.01.2022
Hitting the Books: How Southeast Asia's largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraudMachine learning is streamlining traditional, rules-based money laundering investigations.By A. Tarantola, 09.25.2022
Hitting the Books: What if 'Up' but pigeons?Swallows carrying coconuts were only the beginning. By A. Tarantola, 09.18.2022
Hitting the Books: How to uncover the true nature of the multiverse It just takes a judicious application of some mind-meltingly complex math.By A. Tarantola, 09.11.2022
Hitting the Books: Newfangled oceanographers helped win WWII using marine scienceTrailblazing researcher Mary Sears led the unprecedented oceanic intelligence gathering effort.By A. Tarantola, 09.04.2022
Hitting the Books: How hurricanes work"Ironic as it may sound, the planet’s worst windstorms are born out of an abundance of tranquility."By A. Tarantola, 08.28.2022
Hitting the Books: How can privacy survive in a world that never forgets?Tomorrow's internet will know you're a dog, and hold that fact against you.By A. Tarantola, 08.21.2022
Hitting the Books: What goes on at a summer camp for YouTube Gaming kidfluencers"Good is whatever YouTube thinks is good, and interpretations outside this algorithmic value system aren’t entertained."By A. Tarantola, 08.14.2022
Hitting the Books: How much that insurance monitoring discount might really be costing youIs three percent off your monthly bill worth the loss of digital privacy?By A. Tarantola, 08.07.2022