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Aspen Ideas Festival: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival about the biggest social issues facing the internet: misinformation and harmful content, privacy, election integrity, and the balance of societal values with the constitutional requirement for free speech.
Scientists make model embryos from stem cells to study key steps in human development
Researchers hope these so-called embryoids could provide crucial new insights into how to treat infertility, prevent miscarriages and birth defects and many diseases. But they stir ethical concerns.
At your wits' end with a screen-obsessed kid? Read this
NPR's Life Kit sent a parenting expert to help a family cope with its kids' device fixation. They learned that setting media boundaries means more than limiting the time they spend on screens.
Red Lake pursues food sovereignty; a tractor would be nice, too
Red Lake Nation hopes to grow enough healthy, organic food to feed the entire tribe. It has plenty of land and abundant natural fertilizer. The only thing it doesn't have is enough equipment.
Analysts: Fallout from Target tech stumble likely to be brief
Target's operations suffered from a one-two punch of technology difficulties that slowed transactions over the weekend, but analysts say little backlash is likely.
Replacing plastic: Can bacteria help us break the habit?
Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. But the process is still in the early days.