Five Best Ideas of the Day: How Colleges Became Real Estate Moguls - The Aspen Institute

Universities are becoming real estate powerhouses and reshaping our cities.

Henry Grabar in Slate
Kids are paying more attention than you think to rules about healthy eating.

Melissa De Witte at Stanford University
It’s time for America to come to terms with the CIA’s torture program.

Matt Tait in Lawfare
We should end the ban on paying for human blood.

the Economist
A memory transfer between two animals could upend what we know about memory and learning.

Usha Lee McFarling in STAT News