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Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
wired.com
The 122 U.S. service members killed in the first three weeks of the Iraq War largely died from accidents or friendly fire.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The Washington area had been a magnet for Ethiopian immigrants since a Soviet-backed coup overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. By the early 2000s, Ethiopian and Eritrean merchants dominated the storefronts on Ninth Street between U and T Streets, and in 2005 they petitioned Councilman Jim Graham to rename the block “Little Ethiopia.”
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
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