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1. How Google Maps can help communities address air pollution.
By Karin Tuxen-Bettman at Google
2. Could America’s fraught political environment be making us more sick?
By the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3. Commercial jets might fly without pilots someday. Here’s how we’ll get there.
By Dominic Gates in the Seattle Times
4. Why math is democracy’s best defense against gerrymandering.
By Carrie Arnold in Nature
5. If we don’t want to start paying more for clothing, we should let robots make it.
By Ankita Rao in Motherboard

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