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1. Are we loving Yellowstone Park to death?
By Todd Wilkinson in National Geographic Magazine
2. Who do we blame for America’s trade deficit? Us.
By Stephen S. Roach in Project Syndicate
3. Science’s toughest challenge? How to store, search and access all that research data.
By Jeffrey M. Perkel in Nature
4. The world’s billionaires are planning to harness fusion energy.
By Jonathan Frochtzwajg at the BBC
5. Here’s how to simplify the college scholarship process.
By Karen Gross in the Aspen Journal of Ideas
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