1. The unlikely solution to clearing road congestion.
By Adele Peters in Fast Company
2. Standing desks aren’t as great as they seem.
By Rachel Rettner in the Washington Post
3. Why your perception of wealth is off.
By Caroline Beaton in the Science of Us
4. The secret to being happy at work isn’t working less- it’s caring less.
By Andrew Taggart in Quartz
5. As politics becomes less civil, so does the internet.
By Rishab Nithyanand, Brian Schaffner and Phillipa Gill in Vox
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