September 23, 2020

Social media fact-checkers are destroying good science

In 1999, then–attorney general Janet Reno empaneled a special counsel to investigate the 1993 Waco siege after learning that the  FBI had misled her about the use of pyrotechnic rounds fired during the standoff's last day. ...

September 17, 2020

Facebook to women: Lean In! (But don't touch our narrative)

Seven years ago, Facebook chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg launched her Lean In initiative to empower women in the workplace.  Hoping to break the cycle of male domination and the condemnation of ambitious women it generated, S...

September 12, 2020

Connected technology and the politics of driving

As the author of a book on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, I naïvely believed that the crises of 2020 would mark the beginning of the end for self-driving cars.  Why, I wondered, would a rider request an on-demand vehicle without k...

September 22, 2018

The Las Vegas Massacre's Missing Data

If the results of an investigation are only as good as the data it utilizes, then the recent investigation into the Las Vegas massacre is one for the record books – at the bottom of the list. Predictably, Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo re...

October 15, 2016

Hillary’s Waco Deception

Before Benghazi, before the e-mail scandal, before the numerous allegations of impropriety involving the Clinton Foundation, there was Waco.  On April 19, 1993, a few short months into Bill Clinton’s first presidential term, nearly 80 men,...