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When gatekeepers step aside, the local crowd flourishes

For years, people assumed encyclopedias had to be created by professionals. Then Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an encyclopedia without central planners. That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gatekeepers — people who hired experts to…

Katniss survived ‘The Hunger Games,’ but could you?

My great aunt could name every plant on the land she grew up on. I grew up on the same land too, and we would walk together through the woods some days. She would point out the names of the…