Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 4.25

• Hundreds of Chicago students walk out of standardized test. (via Common Dreams)
• How the brain makes tradeoffs in favoring some skills over others. (via Time Healthland)
• Girls are better at designing superheroes than you. (via BetterSupes)
• Bacteria churn out first ever petrol-like biofuel. (via NewScientist)

Featured image credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH.

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