Dan BoukDan Bouk researches the history of bureaucracies, quantification, and other modern things shrouded in cloaks of boringness. He studied computational mathematics as an undergraduate before earning a PhD in history from Princeton University. Hisfirst book, How Our Days Became Numbered, explores the life insurance industry's methods for quantifying people, discriminating by race, and thinking statistically. He teaches history at Colgate University. Read More Read Less