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Design
Project 008
XXXXXXXL When Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart had the big idea in 2000 to create an online art community using T-shirts as their medium,...
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Witness Video Hub
The Witness Video Hub is helping people document human rights abuses when YouTube and governments don't cooperate. Plus Big Thinker Sushmita Ghosh.
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Useful Void
Harvard professor Viktor Mayer-Schöenberger thinks the internet should learn to forget.
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TED Effect
The network of thought leaders, donors and corporations behind the TED conference's audacious projects.
Environment
Museum of Nature
If there's a small upside to global warming, it's surely this: After centuries of neglect and skepticism, we've finally come to appreciate...
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Zeppelins, Luxury
Things are about to get a lot more fashionable in the world of giant gas-filled floating transports.
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Quantum Hippies
Quantum mechanics and Ayahuasca-induced hallucination: together at last.
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Killer Robots in Iraq
This fall a thousand new fighters started shipping out to Iraq. They were robots, mind you, not people.
News
Most Likely to Secede
S: Secession "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...
News
Jerusalem, Division of
Jerusalem is often seen as the flash point of Middle East tension-Muslims angry that Jews control their third-holiest city, Jews angry that...
News
Ibrahim Index of African Governance
The African cell-phone mogul Mo Ibrahim pinpointed a simple fact about African leaders: Many of them use their power to enrich themselves...
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Spore
Spore is putting the nerdy stuff back into video games. Plus Big Thinker Nicholas Negroponte.
News
Human Terrain System
The Pentagon is bringing social scientists to the battlefield. Plus Big Thinker Samantha Power.
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YouPorn
It was only a matter of time before the addictive convenience of YouTube extended to that other thing we love about the internet.
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Encyclopedia of Life
A new web-based zoological catalogue will store information about every single plant and animal on earth. Plus Big Thinker Wendy Kopp.
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DeLorean Revival
The DeLorean has returned from ignominy. Plus the Big Ideas Graveyard.
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Gum, Easily Removable
The gum stuck-on-shoe/in-hair/to-your-stoop nightmare now has an antidote. Plus Big Thinker Mario Batali.
Environment
Paper Saving
A single setting in Microsoft Office wastes a small state's worth of trees every year. Plus Big Thinker Cameron Sinclair.
