How Iceland Solved Its Carbon Dioxide Problem

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1. What if we could diagnose a concussion with a mobile phone?

By Mike Orcutt in MIT Technology Review

2. These simple steps can keep disadvantaged students from dropping out of college.

By Jonathan Rabinovitz at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education

3. The antidepressants used by tens of thousands of teens don’t work.

By Ashley Welch at CBS News

4. Iceland just solved the carbon dioxide problem. They turned it into rock.

By Chris Mooney in the Washington Post

5. Forget binge-watching TV. Here comes binge-reading.

By Charley Locke in Wired

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