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It still pays off: Gillian White on the value of a college education

Is college the best option? That’s a hotly debated topic these days, and in fact, Chapter 16 of your text addresses that very question. Gillian White, senior associate editor of The Atlantic, reports on the results of a new Georgetown University study showing that college “still pays off.” Her article was published in the magazine in February 2015.

Read it here: White, "Even with debt, college still pays off”

 

Death by robot: Robin Henig addresses automation and morality

As robots and mechanized transactions become increasingly more commonplace, questions about their abilities and their “humanness” become ever more urgent and complicated. Science writer Robin Marantz Henig explores some of the issues surrounding robots in life-and-death situations in this January 2014 article in the New York Times Magazine. 

Read it here: Henig, "Death by Robot"