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Three Years Later, Cornellians Celebrate Removal of Fences

cornellsun.com — Walking to campus Friday, a group of Cornellians stood at the suspension bridge. They paused to admire the view of the gorges - something that, until today, they were only able to look at through bars after a string of suicides in 2010 led Cornell to fence off seven of its bridges.

27 Lessons Learned from The Office

esquire.com — After The Office airs its final episode tonight, it will ascend to heaven, which is just like Scranton but with better restaurants. When the U.S. version of the show debuted in 2005, I was just taking my seat in the adjustable-heighted, ergonomically-designed chair of corporate life.

What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools? (Not what you think)

washingtonpost.com — Finland's Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world's leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling " Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?" In this piece he writes about whether the emphasis that American school reformers put on "teacher effectiveness" is really the best approach to improving student achievement.

Mapping hate speech: homophobia and racism on twitter

guardian.co.uk — Here on the data team, we tend to be skeptical about the accuracy of semantic analysis. But the students and professors at Humboldt State University who produced this map read the entirety of the 150,000 geo-coded tweets they analysed.

Jimmy Kimmel gets celebrities to humiliate Twitter trolls

news.cnet.com — In what is becoming an uplifting series, celebrities such as Elizabeth Moss, Russell Brand, and Gwen Stefani read out some of the nasty things people have sent to them on Twitter. Moss even offers a curt reply. Read this article by Chris Matyszczyk on CNET News.