Why We Need More Nurses

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1. We need more nurses.

By Alexandra Robbins in the New York Times

2. Is containing China more important than discouraging modern slavery?

By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Laura Barron-Lopez in the Huffington Post

3. This is how you fix a space robot 140 million miles away from the nearest mechanic.

By the Los Alamos National Laboratory

4. A robot might not take your job, but self-driving trucks will take the jobs of three million truckers.

By Scott Santens in Basic Income on Medium

5. A special bacteria in your yogurt could diagnose liver cancer.

By Vijee Venkatraman in Beta Boston

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