How Bike Sharing is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike

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1. Here’s why bikesharing is safer than riding your own bike.

By Charlie Sorrel in Fast Co.Exist

2. Let’s reinvent the Pulitzer Prize for the digital age.

By Benjamin Mullin in Poynter

3. Data literacy might protect the public from lies in political ads.

By Walter Frick in Harvard Business Review

4. Surveillance stifles dissent online. Here’s how.

By Kaveh Waddell in the Atlantic

5. Could these headphones make you a better athlete?

By Randy Rieland in Smithsonian

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