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Threats subverted, torture ignored, Twitter defended, and other short takes

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Ed Yong examines how a simple writing exercise helps break vicious cycle that holds back black students.

The Questionable Authority considers The Torture Memos, Medical “Professionals”, and the Hippocratic Oath.

Jessica Palmer, in a healthy display of online media’s corrective power, tries to make clear that For the last time: that “Twitter is Evil” paper is not about Twitter!.

Zimmer takes a tour of assisted migration.

Effect measure argues the lack of universal health care in the US is morally and fiscally bankrupt.

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