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Why the Internet isn't making us smarter – and how to fight back

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imageDo you ever feel like this? It's not helping you get smarter...Chris Hope, CC BY-SA

In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association has had to deny that it threatened to cancel its 2017 All-Star Game over a new anti-LGBT law in North Carolina – a story repeated by many news...

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