These are today's best ideas
1. Give small cities a chance.
By Henry Grabar in Slate
2. Stereotypes are holding Asian Americans back in STEM careers.
By Joan C. Williams, Marina Multhaup and Rachel Korn in the Atlantic
3. The U.S. military is losing the war against data leakage.
By Patrick Tucker at Defense One
4. This database will help you and retailers know if your seafood was caught with slave labor.
By Clare Leschin-Hoar at NPR
5. A ‘pacemaker’ for the brain might slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease.
By Rachael Rettner in Live Science
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