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1. Research shows there’s an internet troll inside all of us.
By Rachel Metz in the MIT Technology Review
2. Room service — from a robot?
By the Economist
3. This is the biological reason music is so universal.
By Drake Baer in the Science of Us
By Hannah Hess in Science
5. We don’t know how many students in college aren’t ready to be there. That’s a problem.
By Sarah Butrymowicz in the Hechinger Report
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