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1. To get the innovation we need, it’s time to break up power monopolies.
By David Roberts in Vox
2. There’s no such thing as local food.
By Dan Stone in National Geographic’s The Plate
3. DNA testing and perimeter drones: Here’s how you fight illegal logging.
By Emily Kaldjian, Loretta Cheung and Meaghan Parker at the World Resources Institute
4. Here’s why American colleges are nervous about China’s economic woes.
By Laura Krantz and Jacqueline Tempera in the Boston Globe
5. Learning to code doesn’t involve a lot of math. It does require a lot of Googling, though.
By Olga Khazan in the Atlantic
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