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February 29, 2016
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Let’s get rid of in-person voting.
by Ben Pryor in the Conversation
Twitter is kind of winning its war on Islamic State.
by Tobin Harshaw in Bloomberg View
Is tech disrupting education — by enabling cheating?
by Doug Bierend in Bright
Virtual fossils — accessible anywhere online — will change the study of human evolution.
by Doug Boyer in Aeon
Want to improve your memory? Ignore more stuff.
by Julia Shaw in Scientific American
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