These are today's best ideas
1. Social media is ruining vacations.
By Mary Pilon in Backchannel
2. Find out how one California surgeon is giving hope to the uninsured.
By Patricia Leigh Brown in Stat News
3. Should we teach kids empathy in school?
By Max Ufberg in Pacific Standard
4. Want to make a computer smarter? Teach it to be bad at math.
By Tom Simonite in MIT Technology Review
5. Can ‘design thinking’ make foreign policy more creative and less of a mess?
By Elizabeth Radziszewski in the Wilson Quarterly
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