“You might not know her, but you know her brother”: Surveillance Technology, Respectability Policing, and the Murder of Janese Talton Jackson

What you don't know might kill you.

Last November, a month after his 32nd birthday, Rene Gonzalez moved with his wife and two young daughters from Miami to Cape Coral, a wetlands community whose canals have earned it the nickname the Little Venice of Florida. In Miami the competition in his chosen career—nutritional supplement sales—was fierce, and Cape Coral offered a less congested marketplace. He opened a small store, Just Add...

Incomplete data: what you don't know might hurt you.

Molecular epidemiology studies commonly exhibit missing observations. Methods for extracting correct and efficient analyses from incomplete data are well known in statistics, but relatively few such methods have diffused into applications. I review some areas of incomplete data research that are relevant to molecular epidemiology and appeal for greater efforts by statisticians to translate thei...

Do you know what you don't know?

"It's Not What You Know

Researchers in the U.S. have increasingly focused on how various forms of social capital shape educational outcomes. But to date, we know little about the impact social capital has on educational outcomes in other countries. Moreover, few have focused on the ethnically specific dimensions of social capital, assuming instead that social capital effects are universal. This article addresses both ...

Everything you never wanted to know about polarization--but were afraid you might find out.

Most practitioners of cytometry, whether “flow jocks” or more casual users (“Joe and/or Josie Three-Color”), measure the intensity of scattered light and fluorescence emission in one or more selected wavelength regions, and pay no attention to the degree or direction of polarization of that light. Most of the time, we have gotten away with it. However, the article by Asbury, Uy, and van den Eng...