Knowing You’re Taking A Placebo Can Help

1. Even if you know you’re taking a placebo, it could help.

By Robert Anthony Siegel in Smithsonian

2. Mentor people who aren’t like you.

By Richard Farnell in the Harvard Business Review

3. America needs a national metropolitan political party.

By Bruce Katz in CityLab

4. Can weed cure America’s opioid epidemic?

By Kaleigh Rogers in Motherboard

5. How an Uber-like ambulance taxi service is saving lives of pregnant women in Tanzania.

By Matt Petronzio in Mashable

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