TV Is More Like the Real World — Unless It’s Network TV

1. Television is looking more like the real world — unless you’re watching network TV.

By Manuel Betancourt in Mic

2. Flint’s water crisis is the tip of the iceberg. How did lead contamination take us by surprise?

By Sarah Frostenson in Vox

3. Better pictures of the human brain could make computers smarter.

By Will Knight in MIT Technology Review

4. Is China lurching toward the same economic spiral that killed the Soviet Union?

By Matthew Johnston in Investopedia

5. We should end our obsession with skinny phones.

By Napier Lopez in the Next Web

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