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1. Is Google making us stupid?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

2. Mind over Mass Media

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html?_r=1

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