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Meet The Mind-Reading Robo Tutor In The Sky

An ed-tech company says its free online platform will revolutionize individualized learning. Skeptics call it digital snake oil.

LISTEN: 7 Blast-From-The-Past Clinton And Sanders Debate Moments

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LISTEN: 7 Blast-From-The-Past Clinton And Sanders Debate Moments

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Dutch Investigation Concludes MH17 Shot Down, But Assigns No Blame

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Turkish Government Blames ISIS For Weekend Attack That Killed 97

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Turkish Government Blames ISIS For Weekend Attack That Killed 97

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Liberation Over Gangsterism Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

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Meet The Mind-Reading Robo Tutor In The Sky

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Meet The Mind-Reading Robo Tutor In The Sky

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Experiment Tests If Teacher-Student Relationship Helps Performance

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Better at Making Time De Lux

Newlywed Couple Forgoes First Dance For Light Saber Battle

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Fat Gym Riot El Ten Eleven

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Drought Conditions In Indonesia Hinder Efforts To Put Out Wildfire

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India's Ban On Beef Leads To Murder, And Hindu-Muslim Friction

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India's Ban On Beef Leads To Murder, And Hindu-Muslim Friction

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Paranoid Android El Ten Eleven

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Bossa Dorado Gaucho

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Coyote Hearing Marco Benevento

Business

Why Are Millennials Buying So Many Houses In Des Moines?

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Why Are Millennials Buying So Many Houses In Des Moines?

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New Girl The Lions & James King

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Chino El Ten Eleven

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Sip On This: That $10,000 (Or $30) Bottle Of Wine Might Be Fake

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Sip On This: That $10,000 (Or $30) Bottle Of Wine Might Be Fake

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Island Travel Tips: Miss The Hiss, Pick The Purr

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Third Floor Hallway Original Soundtrack

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Lean On Major Lazer, DJ Snake et. al.

Politics

How The Attack In Benghazi Led Us To Hillary Clinton's Emails

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Middle East

Religious Scholars Use Social Media To Counter ISIS Interpretation Of Koran

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Environment

Study May Ease Drinking Water Worries About Fracking

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Study May Ease Drinking Water Worries About Fracking

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Diamonds Dancing Drake & Future

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Ubiquitous 3 Brave Souls

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Givin Up Food for Jah The Lions

National

How Riots May Help Us Understand School Shooters

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Books

Read 'Fates And Furies' With The 'Morning Edition' Book Club

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Freddie Freeloader Miles Davis

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National

Google Briefly Loses Control Of Its Web Domain

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Transatlantic Quantic

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Former Chicago Schools Chief To Plead Guilty In $2.3 Million Kickback Scheme

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Law

Will Supreme Court Allow Juvenile Life Sentence Ruling To Be Retroactive?

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Fern Zoe Keating

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Middle East

U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels Receive Influx Of Weapons

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Luseblus (Sweater Blues) Annbjørg Lien

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So What Miles Davis

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