Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 13

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1. After the shootings in Chapel Hill, a Muslim-American school teacher asks what they must do to be ‘part and parcel’ of America.

By Deanna Othman in the Chicago Tribune

2. Imagine insulin that can read a diabetic’s blood sugar level from inside the body and start working on-demand.

By Anne Trafton in MIT News

3. City governments are using Yelp to warn the public about restaurant health code violations.

By Michael Luca and Luther Lowe in Harvard Business Review

4. The FDA is cutting the red tape so doctors can get experimental drugs to patients more quickly.

By Peter Lurie in FDA Voice

5. How can we support entrepreneurial inventors in developing countries? Create innovation ecosystems.

By Alexander Pan in the Aspen Journal of Ideas

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