These are today's best ideas
1. Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports.
By Andre Perry in the Hechinger Report
2. In Japan, struggling local farmers are building joint-use solar and mushroom farms.
By Adele Peters in Fast Company
3. Can’t get to the gym? Any activity — vacuuming, scrubbing the floor — will protect your heart.
By the Telegraph
4. Make sure you’re in a good mood for your flu vaccine this fall. It’ll work better.
By the University of Nottingham
5. Child abuse rewires the brain of survivors.
By McGill University
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