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    Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World

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    The Literary Heroes of Teen Benjamin Franklin

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    Essay

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    An Op Ed by e.e. cummings in Which He Has Had Enough of France

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    Meet the Heroic Park Rangers Battling Poaching in Kenya

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    On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

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    My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

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    When the Food We Ate Was Literally Poison (Even More So Than Now)

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    How Abstract Mathematical Logic Can Help Us in Real Life

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    Patrick DeWitt on the Surreal Joy (and Terror) of Seeing Your Novel Onscreen

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