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1. Why the Nobel Prizes in science are absurd.
By Ed Yong in the Atlantic
2. Mass shootings are a bad way to understand gun violence in America.
By Maggie Koerth-Baker at Five-Thirty-Eight
By Sydney Johnson in EdSurge
By Elaine Kamarck at the Brookings Institution
5. Can anonymity online be used for good instead of just trolling?
By Erin O’Donnell in Harvard Magazine
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