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• Marcus du Sautoy, author of The Creativity Code, described to The Verge how artificial intelligence could enhance human creativity.
• Lapham’s Quarterly published an excerpt from Sarah Seo’s Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom on the symbiotic nature of the growth of the auto industry and law enforcement; the Cato Institute journal Cato Unbound is running an online symposium on the book through the end of April.
• The education policy site The 74 published an excerpt from Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine’s In Search of Deeper Learning.
• W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition was named a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History.

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April 10: School Is Her Refuge

ref • uge noun A condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, Sally A. Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement…