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America Should Stop Criminalizing Autistic Children

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These are today's best ideas

1. America should stop criminalizing autistic children.

By David M. Perry in Pacific Standard

2. If you’ve ever had a sports injury, that memory might keep you from exercising. Here’s how to beat it.

By Ian McMahan in the Science of Us

3. This all-girl engineer team invented a solar-powered tent for people facing homelessness.

By Brittany Levine Beckman in Mashable

4. Ever had a terrible boss? Rest assured, they’re miserable too.

By Alisson Clark at the University of Florida News

5. This lab-grown liver could be a lifeline for the thousands awaiting a transplant.

By Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C.

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