​Mark J. Panaggio

Lately I have seen quite a few posts on social media that can be paraphrased as follows: [Insert villain] is destroying our society by...

This is part 2 of a series on social media and its effects on society. You can find part 1 here. Also, if you enjoy these posts. Please...

You know how some people like to downplay this whole pandemic situation by pointing out that most of the people who die are old and/or...

I didn’t want to write this post. In this blog, I have tried to steer clear of criticizing particular people and institutions and to...

On July 9th, the Atlantic published an article entitled COVID-19 Cases Are Rising, So Why Are Deaths Flatlining? In this article they...

Statistics are great. They can tell us tons of useful stuff about what is happening in the world. They can tell us lots of fun facts....

Back in March when the world shut down, hospitals began bracing themselves for an uncertain future. There were stories of hospitals in...

What is it that allows an infectious disease to cause an epidemic or even a pandemic? It turns out that you need a transmissible entity...

“Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would...

I was on Facebook the other day, when I saw a shared post that said the following: “No white person alive today ever owned a slave. No...

In the last post, I discussed the trade-offs between false negatives (guilty people who are treated as innocent) and false positives...

Classifications problems are hard. There is no way around it. We face them every day. The reality is that mistakes are inevitable and the...

Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. All lives matter. When I first started hearing statements like these I was admittedly a bit...

In the last post, I discussed the “mere-exposure” effect and how neutral and positive exposure has been shown to decrease prejudice and...

Back in early 2016 when the primaries were in full swing, I was sitting around the lunch table with colleagues, when the conversation...

Both the coronavirus and the issues brought to light by the protests surrounding Floyd's death warrant our attention.

In the last week, I have tried to sit down and write about what is happening in the world repeatedly, but I have been unable to put...

Today, the death toll for COVID-19 in the US crossed 100000, a staggering number that makes this virus the third leading cause of death...

In case anyone was wondering why this blog went from having a few posts per week to nothing for a couple of weeks, my family and I just...