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Analysis: Big data may predict where —but not when —conflict happens

Science & Technology

Machine-learning models can predict the location of future military conflicts but they’re not so good at predicting when they will happen.

Since the inception of predictive algorithm software in U.S courtrooms, more than a million Americans have been analyzed using the technology.

Growing trend of using predictive algorithms in courtrooms and human services offices raises concerns over their current lack of transparency

Justice
Isidoro the Ocelot

Meet Isidoro, our four-legged Brazilian World Cup predictor

Sports

In a New Year, Comfort from Predictions of What’s to Come

Nate Silver on the Science of Prediction

Sports
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Tracking Pandemics by Computer

Scientists at Virginia Tech have come up with a computer model that simulates the spread of infectious disease and could help health officials tackle real world pandemics.

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Innovator Ray Kurzweil offers his insight on the future of artificial intelligence– and let’s us play with some of his inventions.

Forecasting 2006

Advances in energy and a rejuvenated environmental movement are some of the items on Gerald Celente’s list for this year’s hot trends.

The Living on Earth Almanac

This week, facts about – the law with a funny name: NEPA (KNEE-pah), the National Environmental Policy Act, under which Environmental Impact Statements are required for federal projects.

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What Compels Us to Predict an Unknowable Future?

Arts, Culture & Media

Anticipating the future is a classic (and possibly uniquely) human pastime. For as long as humans have kept records of the past, we have also tried to predict our future…and in so doing, control our destiny. Why do we cling to these predictions? The end of the world, the end of humanity, even our future […]

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