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David Malan, of the hit class CS50, was working to perfect online teaching long before the pandemic. Is his method a model for the future of higher education?
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Why a Psychiatrist Collected Premonitions
Sam Knight discusses his reporting on how a psychiatrist set out to collect the dreams and forebodings of the British public.