Why We Should Embrace the Mess — The Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 31, 2017

1. This is why we should stop tidying up and embrace the mess.
   by Tim Harford in Quartz
2. What can infant laughter — and the reasons they laugh — teach us about our brains?
   by Gina Mireault in Aeon Magazine
3. Here’s how analog experiences — vinyl records, paper notebooks and more — help us recharge.
   by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books
4. A writing program for prisoners is changing lives in Florida.
   by Kathie Klarreich in Democracy
5. We should regulate self-driving cars like drugs — with clinical trials.
   by Linda Poon in CityLab

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