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Posts published by “Tianna Spitz”

Tianna is the Managing Editor of The Stute. She was previously the Features Editor and a freshman book columnist. She is a second-year Science Communication major with a focus in health sciences. She loves to cover campus life, culture, and science.

Race After Technology: The ghost in the machine is white

Bias is infused into the modern currency that drives daily and institutional structures: technology. As we pass off machine learning and AI as objective systems, the developers behind everything from phone apps to complex predictive algorithms carry biases that exist within our society.

Storytelling through the looking glass of genetics

As we look in the mirror and find our father’s eyes or our mother’s nose, what similarities persist through generations, and how do the unique ways we animate identical traits tell our story?

Station Eleven confronts the edge of humanity

“Survival is insufficient.” Station Eleven, Emily St. Mandel’s 2014 dystopian novel, followed by the HBO series released in 2021, is a case study on how people change, perpetuate, and internalize the art they love.