Since 1 February, Folgert Karsdorp has held the Meertens Institute Endowed Chair in Computational Methods for the Study of Cultural Change.

FOR many people, privacy sounds vague and abstract. Something technical. Something for banks, big companies or people ‘with secrets.’ In everyday conversations, it is easy to hear phrases like this ...

Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, ...