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Economy passengers may rage after being marched through first class

(credit: flickr user: Hideyuki KAMON)

Research on inequality usually looks at fairly static social structures like schools, transport, healthcare, or jobs. But sometimes glaring inequality can be quite fleeting, as researchers Katherine DeCelles and Michael Norton argue in a recent PNAS article. Their example? Coming face to face with just how awful airplane economy class is in...

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TSA spent $47,000 on an app that just randomly picks lanes for passengers

According to Mashable, the Transportation Security Administration apparently spent $ 47,000 on an app that is essentially a random number generator—it was briefly used to assign travelers to left or right lanes at airports.

As the website reported: “The app was used by TSA agents to randomly assign passengers to different pre-check lines as part of a now-discontinued program called ‘managed...

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