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Benoit Rapoport (Sorbonne) and Claire Thibout (Melbourne): Why Do Boys and Girls Make Different Educational Choices? The Influence of Expected Earnings and Test Scores. From Magculture, Madeleine Morley interviews Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of US quarterly Jacobin. 18 minutes to change the world: Ten years ago, TED was a small Californian conference; now its online talks are viewed 100 million times a month — invited to speak at a TED conference in Iran, Samantha Weinberg became a part of the great global ideas machine. Seth Fiegerman on how Silicon Valley, capitalist conscience of America, struggles with gun technology. Brian Stelter and Tom Kludt on the final days of Al Jazeera America. The evangelical owners of Hobby Lobby have amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical antiquities — why?