Our 2016 winter reading list. Featuring: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Strangers in Their Own Land, The Rent Is Too Damn High, City of Gold, Don Quixote, Titan, Grit, Pandaemonium and others.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric--with a new afterword \"A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.\"--Financial Times NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Boston Globe - Wired - Fortune - Kirkus Reviews - The Guardian - Nature - On Point We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination--propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.
The perfect 7 day Big Island itinerary! This day-by-day guide for how to spend one week in Hawaii with the best things to see and do.
This recipe for the Perfect Oven Pot Roast, in fact, is the perfect meal. The meat is slow cooked in the oven with carrots and onions until the meat is fall-apart-tender and the carrots are tender crisp.
Warm, soft, and rich, nothing beats a piece of this homemade naan bread recipe alongside your favorite rich curry.
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Use this free All About Me printable book to practice early literacy skills during preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten all about me theme.
This crock pot pot roast is the ultimate comfort food and it's SUPER easy to throw together. The slow cooker does all the work and delivers a perfectly tender, juicy pot roast with tender-crisp veggies and an optional 5-minute stovetop gravy!
You don’t need to stress about dinner ideas with this list of great crockpot meals. These meal ideas are high in protein and great for weight loss. If you want to increase your protein intake, try these slow cooker recipes this week. rn
Lentil curry is one of our best lentil recipes as it’s easy to make, it can be frozen for those lazy weeknights, and it’s full of flavor, vitamins, and antioxidants.
Try these 10 stretches to loosen up all your tight and sore muscles and feel as good as if you’d had an actual massage. (OK, almost as good.)
You can make crispy southern fried okra from scratch.
Prolonged sitting and smartphone use can cause forward head posture, which leads to neck and shoulder pain. Here are 7 exercises to correct forward posture.