How Sweet Potatoes Could Help Fight Blindness

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1. Scientists are building a better sweet potato to fight blindness.

By Adityarup Chakravorty at the American Society of Agronomy

2. Mistreatment of female military vets isn’t just a women’s issue.

By Jennifer Dolsen in Task and Purpose

3. Can activists take on climate change with the marriage equality playbook?

By Ramez Naam in Quartz

4. In medicine, is there such a thing as too much information?

By Lisa Rosenbaum in the New England Journal of Medicine

5. We need a small business borrower’s bill of rights.

By Joyce Klein and Gwendy Donaker Brown in the Aspen Journal of Ideas

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