These are today's best ideas
1. No, there’s no advantage to washing your hands with hot water.
By Robin Lally in Rutgers Today
2. If you want your kids to behave, put down your phone.
By Brandon McDaniel at the Institute for Family Studies
3. We’re only beginning to understand how architecture affects our emotions.
By Michael Bond at BBC Future
4. As Silicon Valley’s economic divide deepens, will the tech industry see an organized labor boom?
By Angelo Young in Salon
5. Here’s how behavioral economics can help people lose weight.
By the Duke-NUS Medical School
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