These are today's best ideas
1. Forget bubble wrap. The future of packaging is algae.
By Anne Quito in Quartz
2. This is the national security issue no one is discussing.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Elizabeth Weingarten in Time
3. States are starving public universities by choice, not necessity. Here’s how to reverse the damage.
By Jonathan R. Cole in the Atlantic
4. GDP measures the wrong data. We need a better metric for economic success.
By Ross Chainey at the World Economic Forum
5. Can reinventing the safari save Kenya’s tourism industry?
By Laura Secorun Palet in Ozy
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