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# A Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court

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## The Aspen Institute


Jul 28, 2015 4:03 PM UTC

by 

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## The Aspen Institute


Jul 28, 2015 4:03 PM UTC

**1\.** [**Does the Supreme Court need a code of conduct?**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/does-the-supreme-court-need-a-code-of-conduct)

By Lincoln Caplan in the New Yorker

**2\.** [**Could the genes of real-life superheroes help find new pain drugs?**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/these-superhumans-are-real-and-their-dna-could-be-worth-billions)

By Caroline Chen in Bloomberg Business

**3\.** [**Here’s how scientists made solar power 30 percent more efficient.**](http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/30606)

By Iqbal Pittalwala at University of California Riverside

**4\.** [**With privatized space travel, returning to the moon just got a lot cheaper.**](http://www.space.com/30008-moon-colony-cost-commercial-space-report.html)

By Elizabeth Howell in Space.com

**5\.** [**Micropayments for news stories might be making a comeback.**](http://mediashift.org/2015/07/micropayments-for-news-stories-make-a-comeback-maybe/)

By Matt Carroll in MediaShift

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