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1. This tax could save your life.
By Tom Frieden at CNN
2. Can we be too emotionally intelligent?
By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe in Scientific American
3. Why we should not know our own passwords.
By Megan Squire at Elon University
4. Is television finally ready to discuss abortion?
By Ellen E. Jones in the Guardian
5. One more reason to fear fake news: It’s fooling our kids.
By Kelly Wallace at CNN
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