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Essay: Why conservation needs both science and poetry

An essay argues that searching "ugly hair" on Google Images consistently returns mostly Black women with natural hair, and that this isn't a glitch: it's what happens when a system learns from biased data and nobody intervenes.

An essay proposes that web browsers should be understood as political environments, not neutral software: comparing Tor and Chrome, it argues each browser positions users differently within what the authors call "data colonialism," the extraction of personal data by tech companies as a form of power

An essay argues that Japanese 'wasei eigo' words like cherry boy ('male virgin') and back-mirror ('rear-view mirror') should be analyzed as Japanese vocabulary inspired by English, not as misused English, reframing a phenomenon often dismissed as error from the donor language's perspective.

Essay Explaining ‘Why Geologists Love To Lick Rocks’ Wins Ig Noble Prize