How We Can Treat the Gun Violence Epidemic

1. Could we treat gun violence as a treatable contagion?

By Sanjay Gupta in CNN

2. With satellites and crowdsourcing, conservationists are giving birds a ‘pop-up’ layover on their migration route.

By Kate Ramsayer at the NASA Earth Observatory

3. Meet a fashion startup that helps at-risk women get a better life.

By Leo Lutero in PSFK

4. Time to abolish Columbus Day.

By Bill Bigelow in the Huffington Post

5. Here’s how mushrooms — yes, mushrooms — will make a better battery.

By Sean Nealon at the University of California Riverside

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