Linkfest: May 12, 2018

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What I am reading today

With all areas of retail health still highly fragmented, there's no shortage of acquisition targets for private equity investors:pic.twitter.com/NA98QRx21R (Bain Alerts)
Your Weekly Attenborough: Cichlidogyrus attenboroughi (Discover Magazine)


Don't ask for tips! (Subramoney)
These popular Chinese 'Social+' apps engage, entertain and educate (SCMP: China Tech)
Job creation: It's a full-time job (Forbes India Magazine)
How Companies Can Develop Anti-bias Strategies that Work (Knowledge@Wharton)
Living on an Active Volcano (New Yorker)
20 years after the Shakti tests (Brookings India)
How Companies Can Develop Anti-bias Strategies that Work (Knowledge@Wharton)
Africa in the news: East Africa continues to integrate, Ethiopian Airlines scales up, and AIIB expands (Brookings: Economics)

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