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1. Professional sports stadiums are a boondoggle, and the public shouldn’t foot the bill.
By Richard Florida in CityLab
2. San Antonio’s power utility has a brilliant plan to give solar panels away.
By Daniel Gross in Slate
3. Meet the doctor trying to save the health of black men one haircut at a time.
By Erin Schumaker in Huffington Post
4. Is it time to tax the endowments of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford?
By Jordan Weissmann in Slate
5. This robot has a deadly mission to save the Great Barrier Reef.
By Tom Espiner in BBC News
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