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1. Your sunscreen is lying to you.
By James Hamblin in the Atlantic
2. Hosting the Olympics is a terrible investment.
By Clay Dillow in FiveThirtyEight
3. A good high school student will be a good college student, right? Wrong.
By Gregory Ferenstein and Brad Hershbein at the Brookings Institution
4. We need a new grand bargain with Russia.
By James Stavridis in Time
5. This folding paper helmet could make bike-sharing a lot safer.
By Eillie Anzilotti in CityLab
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