These are today's best ideas
1. This global effort could make migration work.
By Michael Spence in Project Syndicate
2. To contain pandemic flu and engineer better vaccines, we need to unlock the human immune system.
By Wayne C. Koff, Peter C. Doherty and Margaret A. Hamburg in STAT News
3. Science has a gambling problem.
By the editors of Nature
4. Americans are wary of the press but trust their libraries. Can the media learn from librarians?
By David Beard at Poynter
5. More teachers of color in science classes mean more scientists of color in our future.
By Tara García Mathewson in Hechinger Report
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