Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

1 of 2 LARP freshman Owen Lange, top, glances toward the team's bench while fighting for a pin in Friday's victory over P-E-M. Andrew Tucker LARP junior Jonah Bunke, left, fights to get out from an ...

In the Big Data era, data is not only becoming bigger and bigger; it is also becoming more and more complex. This translates into a spectacular increase of the dimensionality of the data. For example, ...