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“I read news sources compulsively, maybe obsessively, in acknowledgment of the sheer amount of data available at my fingertips,” says Biron, a professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies, and a Dartmouth Public Voices fellow. “My habit takes the form of information gathering, as if such gathering were the same thing as drawing the connections that make data meaningful. I nurse a vague intuition that doing this daily will eventually help me apprehend the big picture of our epoch.”

Read the full opinion piece, published 2/21/14 by The Huffington Post.