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The entanglement of data and power makes feminism a necessity for this growing field. B Data Feminism Excerpted from Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. The act of collecting and recording data about people is not new at all. From the registers of the dead that were published by church officials in the early modern era to the counts of Indigenous populations that appeared in colonial accounts of the Americas, data collection has long been employed as a technique of consolidating knowledge about the...

Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway. Craig Timberg, The Washington Post Feb. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Dr. Li-Meng Yan's assertion that China created the coronavirus in a lab in Wuhan was quickly challenged by major scientific journals.Photo for The Washington Post by Jackie Molloy f Scientists from Johns Hopkins, Columbia and other leading American universities moved with rare speed when a Chinese virologist, Li-Meng Yan, published an explosive paper in September claiming that China had created the deadly coronavirus in a r...

Credit: Photo credit: The MIT PRESS, 2021. Women make up fewer than ten percent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women--including Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Bachelet, and Theresa May--"Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons" (on sale February 2nd, 2021 from The MIT PRESS), explores gender bias and asks why there aren't more women in leadership roles. Speaking honestly and freely, these women...

Caption: The emblem of Dædalus, a maze seen from above, symbolizes the aspiration of its founders to “lift each of us above his cell in the labyrinth of learning in order that he may see the entire structure as if from above, where each separate part loses its comfortable separateness.” Previous image The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the MIT Press recently announced that Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy, will now be an open-access publication. The MIT Press has published Dædalus on behalf of the academy since 2003. Years of ...