Weekly Wrap 3.11.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. PLAYING GO(d): AI Just Outmatched the Human Brain, 10 Years Ahead of Schedule

If eternity really is found in the hearts of men, it may look something like a game of Go. And Google just won it.<

2. This Is a Good Story About Growing Up Evangelical 

“It is easy to be cynical about in-group dynamics and communities; cynical is something I have been about the church. Underneath that cynicism, though, I give my assent: It IS good and pleasant—very good, even—when people who love each other live in unity.”

3. White Working-Class Nostalgia, Explained by John Wayne

“Though Donald Trump has made it easy to see white backlash purely in terms of anger and prejudice, I think it's a useful exercise, intellectually and empathically, to try and understand what reactionary white voters crave, what they feel is missing.”

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