Organic Foods Could Prevent a Public Health Crisis

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1. Could organic food prevent a public health crisis?

By Elizabeth Grossman in Civil Eats

2. Our perception of undocumented immigration in America doesn’t always match reality.

By Hansi Lo Wang, Alyson Hurt and Camila Domonoske at NPR

3. If America’s public lands were a business, politicians would be bungling the balance sheet.

By Yvon Chouinard in the Los Angeles Times

4. This lab-in-a-box could bring gene therapy to the masses.

By Antonio Regalado at MIT Technology Review

5. Tech companies are hoarding patents, but they should be donating them.

By Tolulope Edionwe in the Outline

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