The US and China are in a nuclear arms race.

As with the US and USSR in the 70s and 80s, an advance by one side often puts the other side in danger of losing its deterrent capacity.

Wiser heads should negotiate treaties to limit the advances on both sides.

An in-depth article about Ada Colau, the radical mayor of Barcelona.

I find her admirably firm in her stance.

Studying big data leads to slanted results when the data are systematically biased, and often they are.

How to get unbiased data? I fear that today's scientists will support industry and government in trying to forcibly monitor everyone. However, many people will give data voluntarily if it is collected in an anonymous way and can't be reidentified.

A thousand Americans have been convicted of shaking their babies because the babies appeared to have "shaken baby syndrome", but it seems that syndrome may be an erroneous theory and perhaps those parents did not really do anything.

Today's "digital assistants" are also spies.

For them not to be spies, they would have to be (1) entirely local and (2) entirely free (libre) software.