These are today's best ideas
1. Even if you know you’re taking a placebo, it could help.
By Robert Anthony Siegel in Smithsonian
2. Mentor people who aren’t like you.
By Richard Farnell in the Harvard Business Review
3. America needs a national metropolitan political party.
By Bruce Katz in CityLab
4. Can weed cure America’s opioid epidemic?
By Kaleigh Rogers in Motherboard
5. How an Uber-like ambulance taxi service is saving lives of pregnant women in Tanzania.
By Matt Petronzio in Mashable
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