These are today's best ideas
1. How tailgating trucks can save us all money.
By Ashley Halsey III in the Washington Post
2. This is how an advertiser — or anyone — can use online ads to track your location.
By Jack Morse in Mashable
3. As they brace for cuts in government funding, has public media left the ‘public’ behind?
By Sarah Alvarez in Mediashift
4. Could food explain why autism impacts boys more often than girls?
By Renee Joy Dufault and Steven G. Gilbert in Scientific American
5. Take the president’s finger off the nuclear trigger.
By Dan Glickman in Politico
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