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American College of Physicians
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University of Sydney
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Ohio State University
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
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American Chemical Society
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Earlham Institute
How people learn computer programming
Society for Neuroscience
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Society for Neuroscience
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Johns Hopkins University