1. Personal robots are going to sell you drugs in your living room. James Percelay, Thinkmodo co-founder, and professor Edward Boches explain how a new generation of Mad Men will tap into your desires.
2. Your town's school probably isn't named after Bill Gates or Sam Walton, but maybe it should be. Wealthy donors are making more and more of an impact in education, explains Elizabeth Green, Chalkbeat's editor-in-chief.
3. Cat comics. John Updike short stories. Literary reviews. The New Yorker’s celebrating 90 years and yeast gave rise to it all.
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