Why You Should Meet a Scientist

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1. A lot of Americans don’t know a single scientist. We need to fix that

By Sara Whitlock in STAT News

2. To make America great again, start with great broadband everywhere.

By Blair Levin at the Brookings Institution

3. Who’s still fighting climate change? The U.S. military.

By Laura Parker at National Geographic

4. Willpower is a dangerous and outdated idea. It should be scrapped.

By Carl Erik Fisher in Nautilus

5. You can print on this paper with light instead of ink, and erase and reuse it dozens of times.

By Mark Wilson in Fast Co.Exist

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