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    Your Classroom Is Making You Fail Almost everyt traditional classroom design makes it harder to learn–yet the fixes are often simple.

    The Future of Money Depends on Busting Fairy Tales About Its Past Want to disrupt finance? Start here.

    To Board a Cruise Ship–and Never Get Off Meet the retirees who never stop moving.

    Chasing Virality Brought Us Fake News, Now Everything’s on Fire By uncritically embedding itself into social networks, did the media actually usher in the era of fake news?

    Breaking the Cycle

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    The Human Machine

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    Isla del Encanto

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    Alicia Kennedy
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    Beats: Space

    Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

    Beats: Food

    Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

    Beats: Disability

    “Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

    Beats: Health

    Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

    Tampon Club: No Apologies for Menstruation-Based Innovation

    If your manager won’t provide sanitary products, it’s time to take matters into your own hands.
    Georgina Voss
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    A Brief History of Ludicrous Sci-Fi Sports (and Their Chances of Becoming Reality)

    From “The Prisoner” to “The Running Man,” sci-fi writers can’t help but try to invent weird new games.
    Holly Gramazio & Sophie Sampson
    Jul 18, 2016 8 min read

    Let Robots Handle Your Emotional Burnout at Work

    But as robotics and computing evolve, some researchers foresee a future where technology can relieve the long-held emotional burden of some of these professions. They think we owe it to the service workforce to offer a new frontline of robotic protection. In fact, they think it’s far overdue–but does that actually mean just automating these jobs away?
    Meeri Kim
    Mar 23, 2017 8 min read