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This is Noémie
NAME Noémie Lafrance AGE 34 LOCATION Brooklyn, New York OCCUPATION Artistic director and founder of Sens WHAT SHE MAKES...
Design
Ad-Liberated
Let's face it: Online ads are eyesores-even when they don't suddenly become animate and seize control of your screen. To our rescue comes a...
News
Mr. Mayor
John Fetterman is remaking a deserted rust-belt town for a new creative class. This summer, across the street from a sprawling steel mill, 800...
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Hitchhiker’s Guide
The two main obstacles to mass carpooling are trust and density-we tend to be shy of hopping into the cars of strangers, and, even if we muster...
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Seeking Refuge
Wars, famine, and natural disasters are just a few of the reasons people are forced to leave their homes and flee their countries. Around the...
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The Guerilla Deck
Quit squandering your roof's potential. It's easier to fix than you think. My right hand, unaccustomed to labor more manual than pushing a...
News
Mark Peters on War Slang
A recent recruiting commercial for the Army says, "There is a type of strength that doesn't require words." Now, I'm in no position to question...
News
The Three-Trillion-Dollar War: Its Cost In Ten Steps
In 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld estimated that a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq War...
News
Change Congress
For a very brief moment earlier this year, I considered a run for Congress. My Congressman had announced his retirement. Shortly thereafter, he...
Business
Blowhards
Benjamin Franklin used a kite to prove that lightning is electricity; The German engineer Stephan Wrage is using a kite to move really big ships....
Business
GOOD Q&A: Kate Roberts
Kate Roberts is using pop-savvy marketing acumen to sell the idea of safe sex. And it's working. As the head of YouthAIDS (a Choose GOOD partner...
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Project: Intercontinental Breakfast
What do you eat in the morning? Cheerios? Nutella on toast? Haggis? Your breakfast says a lot about you. Or at least that's the assumption behind...
Business
What Nau?
The innovative clothing company Nau was supposed to transform the apparel industry. Instead, it tanked. So what went wrong, and what happens...
News
The D.C. Bar Crawl
You should vote because no matter whose confetti gets tossed in November, D.C.'s favorite pastime will never change: drinking too much and arguing...
Environment
The Air Up There
Writer Malcolm Gladwell sits down with environmentalist Amy Norquist to discuss one of the most unsung and low-tech green solutions out there:...
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Give Women Guns
In the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court found that banning handguns is an unacceptable infringement on our Second...
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What's Up, Doc?
Jay Parkinson is dragging the medical profession into the IM age. Shortly after the posters for Hello Health went up in Brooklyn, New York,...
News
Our Final 284 Reasons to Vote
Why Vote? Reasons 1,281 - 1,565 Rob Reiner, Natalie Portman, and even Oscar the Grouch have their reasons for voting. Maybe you agree with...
