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America Has Become So Anti-Innovation – It’s Economic Suicide
America Has Become So Anti-Innovation – It’s Economic Suicide

Ben Tarnoff, The Guardian

The fall of Juicero isn’t just entertaining tech industry stupidity – it’s the sign of a country refusing to break new ground.

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The Traditional Lecture Is Dead. I Would Know—I’m a Professor
The Traditional Lecture Is Dead. I Would Know—I’m a Professor

Rhett Allain, Wired

Traditional lectures simply aren’t effective. Research shows students don’t learn by hearing or seeing, they learn by doing, a model often called active learning.

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Experts on Authoritarianism Are Absolutely Terrified by the Comey Firing
Experts on Authoritarianism Are Absolutely Terrified by the Comey Firing

Zack Beauchamp, Vox

“Trump has talked like a would-be authoritarian since day one. … This is the first clear warning sign that he’s attempting to [act like one].” Those are the words not of a Democratic political operative or a fringe liberal Trump critic, but of Yascha Mounk, a respected scholar of democracy at Harvard, reacting to Preisdent Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey.

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What the Last Nuremberg Prosecutor Alive Wants the World to Know
What the Last Nuremberg Prosecutor Alive Wants the World to Know

Lesley Stahl, CBS

Ferencz believes “war makes murderers out of otherwise decent people” and has spent his life working to deter war and war crimes.

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Humans Have a Poor Sense of Smell? It’s Just a Myth
Humans Have a Poor Sense of Smell? It’s Just a Myth

JoAnna Klein, The New York Times

“We’re discovering, to our delight, that the human smell system is much better than we were led to believe,” he said. It may be different than other mammals’ “but actually in ways that suggest that it could be more powerful than mice and rats and dogs.”

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The 2 Exercises That Will Keep You Fit for Life
The 2 Exercises That Will Keep You Fit for Life

Kevin Loria, Business Insider

If you want to live a long and healthy life, you should make sure you’re getting enough exercise. It will keep your brain healthy and can add years to your life. Researchers have found that many fit older adults have the muscles and bones of people years — even decades — younger.

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Johnny Depp: A Star in Crisis and the Insane Story of His “Missing” Millions
Johnny Depp: A Star in Crisis and the Insane Story of His “Missing” Millions

Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter

What happened to $650 million? An explosive legal battle between one of Hollywood’s best-paid actors and the business managers he fired has laid bare tumultuous finances, outrageous spending and troubling behavior on Disney’s new ‘Pirates’ movie in a case that could even change how the industry does business.

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Crispr Makes It Clear: The US Needs a Biology Strategy, and Fast
Crispr Makes It Clear: The US Needs a Biology Strategy, and Fast

Amy Webb, Wired

How comfortable do you feel knowing that there is no group coordinating a national biology strategy in the US, and that a single for-profit company holds a critical mass of intellectual property rights to the future of genomic editing?