How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women

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1. Find out how bamboo bikes can empower women.

By Kheira Tami in AJ+

2. This tiny airstrip in an African dictatorship is the future of America’s way of war.

By Joseph Trevithick at Reuters

3. Here’s how sleeping more on weekends could save your life.

By Kate Wheeling in Pacific Standard

4. Is the U.S. about to trigger a new nuclear arms race?

By Gordon Adams and Richard Sokolsky in DefenseOne

5. Did we miss the lessons of the Ebola outbreak?

By Nahid Bhadelia at Goats and Soda

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