How Damaged Brains Can Learn From Healthy Ones

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1. Could damaged brains learn to heal from healthy ones?

By Brian Handwerk at Smithsonian Magazine

2. From VOA to Radio Free Europe, the U.S. needs a single news voice abroad.

By Al Pessin at Defense One

3. Here’s how the dwindling teacher supply is complicating education reform.

By Paul Bruno in the Brown Center Chalkboard at the Brookings Institution

4. The mobile web sucks.

By Nilay Patel in the Verge

5. What’s better than a clinical trial for understanding drug side effects?

By Aviva Rutkin in New Scientist

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