benevolent deception and entitlement
In class today, we were discusing the idea of “benevolent deception” in the book The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. The part of the book is as follows: There’s no […]
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The time in which Henrietta Lived
Something dawned on me today in class while we were discussing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and that is that my generation is the first in America to be […]
the immortal life
This book is a welcome change in style from the previous books we have read in class. Curiously, this book was mentioned on the Newshour on PBS the other day. […]
Gloom and Doom?
After finishing the book “The filter Bubble”, I have realized that the dangers aren’t as bad as I first thought. The internet isn’t going down the crapper. As I began to explore options […]
pokeing holes in the filter bubble
I recently conducted and experiment on the internet. I wanted to see some of this personalization and filtering on these web sites that Eli Pariser had mentioned in his book. Now, Mr. Pariser […]
data mining
This book sheds light on a topic that I (like many others) am aware of, but not very familiar with, and that is the prevalence of data mining. It is quite […]
the order of things
This article by Malcolm Gladwell stays true to his form of writing that I have come to enjoy. He starts by stating the facts or the subject and then systematically […]
outliers: the cultural influence
From chapter eight on, Malcolm Gladwell shifts from accounts of individuals to more broad groups of Peoples categorized by their ethnicity race and nation. He speaks of how different cultural values, traditions, […]
Outliers, a grey area
First and foremost, I’d like to express my excitement over this book. I strongly agree with Malcolm Gladwell in that the complexity of cause and effect in our world does not allow […]
