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1. Find out why we need hurricanes to fight climate change.
By Ken Kingery at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
2. Can feminism fight becoming a marketing ploy?
By Sarah Jaffe in the New Republic
3. What’s the biggest obstacle for self-driving cars? America’s shabby roads.
By Alexandria Sage in Reuters
4. How can blind people navigate the ocean of digital content? This entrepreneur has a plan.
By Meghna Rao in Tech In Asia
5. Move over, offshore wind power. Here comes offshore solar.
By Kelly Hodgkins in Digital Trends

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