College Students Should Build a Network of Mentors: Five Best Ideas of the Day — August 23, 2018

1. To get the most out of college, students must build a network of mentors.
   by Leo M. Lambert, Jason Husser and Peter Felten in The Conversation US
2. The Facebook gender gap could help us understand inequality around the world.
   by Matthew Hutson in Scientific American
3. Rural America has lots to teach us about civil society. We should listen.
   by Allen Smart and Betsey Russell at Stanford Social Innovation Review
4. Can the company that makes stun guns transform policing?
   by Dana Goodyear at The New Yorker
5. When drugs don’t work, nerve stimulation is helping patients with depression.
   by Jim Dryden at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

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