Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the digital world that my middle school students live in. I grew up in a world where charts, graphs and maps were mainly used in academic publications.

Richard Dawkins likened memes to genes, but a new study by Facebook shows just how accurate that analogy is. Memes adapt to their surroundings in order to survive, just like organisms. Post a liberal ...

The biggest surprise to come out of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal and subsequent Congressional grilling of CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the fact that the private data of users was compromised.

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