These are today's best ideas
1. This 100-year-old procedure could reduce the need for IVF.
By the University of Adelaide
2. We can’t plant enough trees to fight the effects of climate change.
By the Potsdam institute for Climate Impact Research
3. Here is how fonts are fueling the culture wars.
By Ben Hersh at Backchannel
4. The cloud storage of the future — holding vast amounts of data — might be tiny strands of DNA.
By Antonio Regalado in MIT Technology Review
5. How toxic drinking culture is destroying Greek life on campus.
By Toben F. Nelson and Spruha Joshi in Newsweek
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