9/8/2020: Elon Musk demonstrates brain-computer tech - Stress may help young people build resilience

Today's Article: Elon Musk demonstrates brain-computer tech
From: CNBC
Readability Score: 11.5

Can we boost the brain? Would you if we could?

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Today's Alternate Article: Stress may help young people build resilience
Readability Score: 7.3

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2/9/2018: Trump administration takes aim at California desert protection plan - Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches megarocket with his own Tesla vehicle on board

Today's Article: Trump administration takes aim at California desert protection plan
From: LA Times
Readability Score: 14.3

A stumbling block for needed expansion and innovation or a very important environmental protection? The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan is supposed to guide the energy industry and protect sensitive desert land. Now Washington wants to roll it back. Explore the issue, have students create a compromise.

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Today's Alternate Article: Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches megarocket with his own Tesla vehicle on board
Readability Score: 8.9

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1/17/2018: Elon Musk Hyperloop May Have Terminus Near Camden Yards - What an Economist Would Buy at the Salad Bar

Today's Article: Elon Musk Hyperloop May Have Terminus Near Camden Yards
From: NBC Washington
Readability Score: 11.9

Are underground air skates traveling at up to 760 mph the transport of the future? Possibly if Elon Musk is allowed to build his hyperloop vision.

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Today's Alternate Article: What an Economist Would Buy at the Salad Bar
Readability Score: 5.5

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