Nate Silver

NYC mayor pleads with Elon Musk to start producing ventilators

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a direct plea to Elon Musk, asking the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX to produce ventilators to help alleviate a shortage at hospitals gearing up to combat COVID-19. U

Mass media vs. social media

In the waning years of the last millennium, at my university, one of the cause célèbres of the progressive left was a concept known as “Manufacturing Consent,” the title of a book and fi

Nate Silver Is Leaving The New York Times For ESPN

Nate Silver, the statistician who rose to national prominence for his scarily accurate predictions of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections, is leaving The New York Times for ESPN. Silver wil

Human After All: Why Nate Silver’s Math Revolution Won’t Kill The Pundits

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Matt Baker is an engineer at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wealthfront.com/">Wealthfront</a>, a software-based financial advisor that is democratizing access to high