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1. If you’ve ever felt like you were being watched, this is why.
By Tom Stafford in BBC Future
2. When America fails to lead, the world suffers.
By Stewart Patrick and Megan Roberts at CNN
3. To find new ways to treat PTSD, scientists are studying how our brains learn to fear.
By Iqbal Pittalwala at University of California, Riverside
4. The world could be out of the fossil fuel car business within a decade.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Australian Financial Review
5. Has Trump given too much power to his generals?
By Richard Allen Smith in Esquire

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