This Childhood Medical Rite of Passage Might Be Making Us Sicker: Five Best Ideas of the Day — June 11, 2018

1. This childhood medical rite of passage might be making us sicker. Should it end?
   by Nerissa Hannink at the University of Melbourne
2. Congress has a responsibility to oversee America’s wars, not just authorize them.
   by Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk at Lawfare
3. How our prison system is failing people with mental health needs.
   by John J. Lennon in Esquire
4. To make better vaccines, researchers are checking patients into ‘hotel influenza.’
   by Nancy Solomon at St. Louis University
5. This technology could fundamentally change our relationship to electricity.
   by David Roberts in Vox

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