Tag: Information

Imagine if it wasn’t clear to people that the Nazis invaded Poland, there is a vaccine for polio, apartheid existed in South Africa or two plus two is four. Imagine dark forces convincing half the population that facts are “fake news.” What ramparts keep idiocracy at bay? Is it ...

We’re constantly bombarded with information from many different resources on the internet. According to experts, an average person sees 4,000 to 10,000 ads daily! It’s naive to think that this information will make us more informed because they are generated for another purpose. Fo...

Last December I’ve had the pleasure to teach a 6 hour-workshop at the Department of Education at the Museum of Modern Art, a class called “Draw your Visit with Data”, where we explored what using data — small and subjective data — as an observational tool and as a creat...

Black Holes have always been a fascinating topic. First coined by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796, they were defined as an object which had a gravitational pull greater than that of the speed of light. These massive objects have a unique spacetime metric because their gravitational force is so great th...

Causality is a central concept in our lives. It refers to the idea that one event influences another event. Our perception of causality underlies many of our personal opinions. If I believe the internet makes people dumber, or that the President has made things worse, I am suggesting a causal c...

In the vast expanse of the digital realm, where data flows like a cosmic river of 1s and 0s, one intriguing question arises: How much does the Internet weigh? This quest for knowledge led us to embark on a journey to demystify the weight of information, a concept often overlooked in the virtual land...