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1. Refugees can now take free online courses at Harvard (and lots of other places).
By Sebastien Malo at the Thomson Reuters Foundation
2. How ISIS became the world’s deadliest tech startup.
By Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair Hive
3. Could rebooting soil across Africa improve food security?
By Nathan Collins in Pacific Standard
4. Missed diagnoses cost lives and billions of dollars. Here’s a surprisingly easy fix.
By David E. Newman-Toker in the Health Care Blog
5. Here’s why we need a Yelp for funeral decisions.
By Daniel Ortiz Reti in Social Work Helper
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