Five Best Ideas of the Day: December 22

1. To meet the growing need for marketable skills in college, technology companies are launching metric-driven accelerated learning programs.

By Shawn Drost in TechCrunch

2. NASA just e-mailed a wrench to the International Space Station.

By Mike Chen in Medium

3. By analyzing Twitter content, researchers are gaining a better understanding of mental illness trends.

By Phil Sneiderman at Johns Hopkins University

4. Law schools are struggling to teach students how to deal with rape, and survivors of sexual assault could suffer.

By Jeannie Suk in the New Yorker

5. As USAID is employed around the world to address political crises, the agency’s true mission might lose focus.

By Nathaniel Myers at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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