Feeling like a pariah (even when you’re not)

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feeling-like-a-pariah-(even-when-you’re-not)

Jessica Hullman wrote this memoir of her interactions with the graphics and visualization research community, and one thing that struck me was this bit describing an event from 2011, when she was a graduate student: There was one weird moment, … Read more

Misunderstanding Malthus’ mistake

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misunderstanding-malthus’-mistake

Few people are as famous for being wrong as Thomas Robert Malthus, the English cleric and early student of population growth. Malthus thought that while population could grow exponentially, food production could grow only linearly. Therefore population growth would always … Read more