These are today's best ideas
1. Gun control might be a political non-starter. Could we regulate bullets instead?
By Ann Brown in the Washington Post
2. Worried about charging your smartphone on your next trip? Bring a deck of hydrogen fuel cells.
By Nick Statt in the Verge
3. If that detonation in North Korea wasn’t an H-bomb, what was it?
By Robert Beckhusen in War is Boring
4. Could we bring back paper clothing?
By Allen Salkin in Good
5. The Sharing Economy is bigger than you imagined.
By Katy Steinmetz in Time
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