Buying Food in Bulk Is a Waste of Money

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1. Stop buying food in bulk.

By Eric Holthaus in Slate

2. In rural India, delivering clean drinking water requires lots of power. Enter the solar desalinator.

By Julia Sklar at MIT News

3. Find out why we might be wrong about America’s stagnant wages.

By Josh Zumbrun in the Wall Street Journal

4. We’re overprescribing antipsychotic drugs for our kids.

By Nancy Shute at NPR

5. When robots make work obsolete, will humanities education make a comeback?

By Jonathan Malesic in the New Republic

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