Frederick Kaufman looks at the ambitious, if obscure, consortium called the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops that pairs megafarms and...
Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: When Does Holding Teachers Accountable Go Too Far? The start of the school year brings another one...
Despite the fact that dental health is so important, too many people in America lack dental coverage. This is a look at how many children have...
Amidst the imbroglio kicked up by The Los Angeles Times series of articles on teacher effectiveness data comes the findings of a research paper...
For our mini-Project today, we asked for your 140-character reviews of summer books, and you delivered. Apparently, people do still read books....
According to the Los Angeles Times, the El Niño weather pattern has grown stronger and shifted west over the past few decades. But as with...
Could the iPad replace the college textbook? The University of Notre Dame is going to find out. This fall, as part of a year-long study on...
American retailers like the Gap and Walgreens have joined a boycott of oil from Alberta's filthy tar sands. Calgary Herald
The artist Maxence Cyrin transforms the classic Pixies number "Where Is My Mind" into a lovely piano piece and sets it to a scene from The...
The DOE is reporting that the Recovery Act has already funded the installation of 2 million (!) smart meters. DOE blog
Starting at the age of four, girls think they're cleverer and better behaved than most boys, according to the BBC. Researchers presented 238...
Levi's, the IFC, and the Sundance Channel have been producing a series of short videos on Braddock, Pennsylvania, a struggling former steel town...
There's a scary hostage situation going at the Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters of Discovery Communications. DCist
Photographs from the new book, Destroy This Memory, by Richard Misrach.
In 2008, Steve Jobs said "The fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year."...
On August 19th, hundreds gathered at the GOOD headquarters in L.A. to talk about ensuring that all kids are on track to receive the 21st century...
A protest by the characters who charge money for photos on Hollywood Boulevard opens up a discussion about public space. Curbed LA
As it turns out, California has not banned single-use plastic shopping bags. Los Angeles Times