News in Brief The Racial Imbalance in Traffic Stops Persists Across the country, non-white drivers are more likely to be stopped, and those stops are more likely to lead to frisks, searches, and tickets. Lauren Kirchner
Environment Searching the Internet Creates an Illusion of Knowledge A new study finds merely looking things up on the Web increases our belief in our own knowledge—even with topics unrelated to our search. Tom Jacobs
Social Justice Predicting Epidemics With Internet Search Data Recent research suggests that evaluating desperate Google queries may be the best way to identify infectious disease outbreaks before they happen. Ryan Jacobs
Health & Behavior News in Brief Previous Site Sections Is Summer the Sanest Season? What Google searches tell us about the seasonality of mental illness. Kevin Charles Fleming