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1. Apple should buy a university — and rebuild it from the ground up.
By Alex Tabarrok in Marginal Revolution
2. Diversity is how we talk about race when we can’t talk about race.
By Ellen Berrey in Salon
3. Some space junk will fall to earth next month, and scientists can’t wait.
By the European Space Agency
4. The FDA just approved fighting skin cancer with a virus. And there’s more to come.
By Heidi Ledford in Nature
By Aaron Morrissey in Medium
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