Our decision to drive attention toward marijuana was borne primarily in new, unsettling scientific data pointing to marijuana use alone as a major risk factor in mental illness, roadside accidents, cognitive impairment and poor performance in school.
Increasingly, unsettling empirical data surfaced concerning human mistreatment of nonhuman animals (e.g., factory farming), nature (e.g., clear-cutting old growth forests), and destructive human-nature relationships (e.g., human creation of unmanaged toxic landfills, especially in communities of color).
This study — the results of which weren't fully analyzed when it was conducted in the early days of enthusiasm for polyunsaturated oils — adds to a small but unsettling body of data suggesting that consuming polyunsaturated oils, even though they reliably lower cholesterol, may nevertheless increase your risk of heart disease.
Over half the schools in the covered area had at least one gunshot nearby most of which went unreported.Such data are unsettling to parents, but useful to police, who are adopting gunshot-recording technology in ever-greater numbers.
"The reserve data were unsettling," said Maria F. Ramirez, a financial economist at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., adding that "the market seemed to have a negative bias anyway" after the 7 1/4percentt bonds fell below a price of 96.
Still, no matter how clearly Facebook might have worded the permissions screens, social media users are only just now broadly awakening to the fact that something is unsettling about all of this data sharing.
Given how far Uber strayed beyond the legal protocols that protect consumer data — and the unsettling twist that it actually paid off its own attackers — it's likely that we'll hear much more from state and federal authorities as they investigate a repeat offender that just can't seem to learn a lesson.
Something ontological has changed with our surrender of privacy The New Yorker's Jill Lepore, also a character in the play, dives into it here—and perhaps that's more unsettling than any nefarious government data-suck.
Recent data resounds to the unsettling echoes of past misery.
"Last night's inventory data from the US was clearly unsettling," said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets in Sydney.
