Making Banana Waste Into Power for Ecuador— The Five Best Ideas of the Day: May 19, 2016

The Five Best Ideas of the Day: May 19, 2016

1. Here’s how waste from one of the world’s favorite fruits could power growth.
   by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2. The next battleground for LGBT rights: the United Nations.
   by the Economist
3. Is marriage the best defense against alcoholism?
   by Anne Dreyfuss at Virginia Commonwealth University
4. Don’t worry about robots. Ex-cons can probably do a better job than you.
   by Jordan Yadoo at Bloomberg Benchmark
5. There’s no such thing as a woman’s ‘biological clock.’
   by Moira Weigel in The Guardian

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