Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 27, 2019 - The Aspen Institute

Will AI ruin chess?

Yoni Wilkenfeld at the New Atlantis
This is the eye-opening reason why colleges don’t want students choosing their roommates.

Alia Wong in the Atlantic
Can flexible pricing for a public good be fair?

Nate Berg in in Reasons to be Cheerful
How mindfulness in middle school benefits students.

Anne Trafton at MIT
In the new fight against measles, disinformation is as much the enemy as disease.

Nick Paumgarten in the New Yorker