Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard
Driverless cars are limited in their understanding and inherit their coders’ biases, warns John Gilbey
Search
-
-
The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’t, by Eugenia Cheng
If you want to learn to argue better, don’t ditch emotion, argues Tony Mann
-
What are you reading? – 19 July 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
Copycats and Contrarians: Why We Follow Others…and When We Don’t, by Michelle Baddeley
What separates the maverick from the herd? Helga Drummond wonders
-
New and noteworthy – 19 July 2018
What is it like to be a bat?; writing about yourself; when safety compromises freedom; a pioneer of the history of medicine; and rethinking the Garden of Eden
-
Is the academy too close to Silicon Valley?
The entanglement of the university and tech worlds faces increased scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Could joint positions in industry and academia offer a workable and ethically...
-
The Secret Life of Science: How it Really Works and Why it Matters, by Jeremy J. Baumberg
Book of the week: the values of research must be preserved despite political and economic pressure, says Harry Collins
-
Laurie Taylor – 19 July 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
-
Greek history contains some thrilling yarns
I read with interest your interview with Richard Clogg about his recent memoir, Greek to Me: A Memoir of Academic Life (“HE & Me”, 14 June). Clogg is a master at cataloguing intrigue, as he...
-
Tweet relief
“The #good, the #bad and the #ugly” (Features, 12 July) highlights the benefits as well as distractions that social media hold for academics. A few months ago, I deleted my Twitter account and...