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1. Was the first song a lullaby?
By Tom Jacobs in Pacific Standard
2. To feed 9 billion people, we need to think differently about protein.
By Mark Driscoll at CNN
3. When we read news on social media, we’re less likely to look at the source. That’s not good.
By Bianca Fortis at MediaShift
4. This is why we need cultural criticism in the age of Trump.
By Josephine Livingstone in the New Republic
5. Here is why it’s so hard for good ideas to survive in the workplace.
By Simon Constable at BBC Capital
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