Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Viking, 352 pages, $28 A famous song from Avenue Q, the celebrated Broadway puppet musical, ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

If you are interested in being less biased–and particularly less prejudiced–I have good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad. Human beings are naturally biased. The only way we can make sense ...

"Food deserts", long-trumpeted as a major cause of unhealthy eating for poor households, are dead. Or at least they should be. The newest study on this topic by Allcott, Diamond, and Dube is extremely ...

Jennifer Eberhardt has been interested in issues of race and bias since she was a child. The African-American Stanford University psychology professor — and author of a new book called Biased --grew ...

Dr. Steve Bellovin is professor of computer science at Columbia University, where he researches "networks, security, and why the two don't get along." He is the author of Thinking Security and the ...