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1. Why read Hamlet when you can play an immersive time-traveling video game version instead?
By Jess Joho in Kill Screen
2. Here’s how to attract female engineers.
By Lina Nilsson in the New York Times
3. Everyone is losing in Yemen’s war.
By Adam Baron in Foreign Policy
4. Google and Facebook could save — or consume — journalism.
By Emily Bell in the Columbia Journalism Review
5. We know how to dramatically reduce teen pregnancies, but we don’t. Here’s why.
By Nora Caplan-Bricker in the National Journal
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