One of the most impactful novels in US history—its descriptions of the meatpacking industry’s disgusting sanitary conditions resulted in the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Author Archives: Carlen
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
The unusual and often unseen powers of predictive statistics, and how they mold our lives and actions.
It’s Probably Penny
A short primer on the basics of probability, for young children.
The Weekly Bulletin: January 6, 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t
The Children’s Spot: It’s Probably Penny
The Product Spot: Risk – a strategy board game
Risk – a strategy board game
A classic probabilistic game with dashes of human interaction throughout.
The Weekly Bulletin: December 23, 2021 | Holiday Quotes Edition
A special holiday edition: a compilation of some favorite quotes that have been held close to soul for many years.
The New Jim Crow
How did this come to be in colorblind America: the mass incarceration and social immobilization of so many of its minorities?
The Weekly Bulletin: December 16, 2021
The Non-fiction Feature: The New Jim Crow – Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Fiction Spot: The Nickel Boys
The Product Spot: MOSAIC Fund for Justice
MOSAIC Fund for Justice
The MOSAIC Fund for Justice supports organizations committed to racial justice and ending mass incarceration.
The Nickel Boys
Elwood Curtis, a black boy in the 1960s, is wrongly sentenced to a horrifying juvenile center, where he is determined to remember that he is worthy.