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Five Best Ideas of the Day
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August 17, 2016
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Your sunscreen is lying to you.
James Hamblin in the Atlantic
Hosting the Olympics is a terrible investment.
Clay Dillow in FiveThirtyEight
A good high school student will be a good college student, right? Wrong.
Gregory Ferenstein and Brad Hershbein at the Brookings Institution
We need a new grand bargain with Russia.
James Stavridis in Time
This folding paper helmet could make bike-sharing a lot safer.
Eillie Anzilotti in CityLab
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