TIME Five Best Ideas

The Skincare Industry is a Con

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These are today's best ideas

1. The skincare industry is a con.

By Krithika Varagur in the Outline

2. Should parents let their children use Facebook’s new kids app?

By Matt O’Brien and Barbara Ortutay at the AP

3. How one review website is improving workplace culture.

By Lizzie Widdicombe at the New Yorker

4. The race is on to become the Bloomberg for cryptocurrencies.

By John Detrixhe in Quartz

5. This autonomous vehicle company doesn’t want us to get in our cars in the first place.

By Andrew J. Hawkins at the Verge

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

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