- July 8, 2008 • 1:47 pm PDT
- + responses
1776 - The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
951 - Paris is founded.
1
What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
2
Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
3
Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
4
Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
5
What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
1
Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
2
Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
3
Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
4
What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
5
A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
1
The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
2
Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
3
Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
4
Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
5
Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

A new mural recently completed in Boyle Heights is part of a global campaign to empower young people in the preservation of water.

Still skeptical about whether Twitter can help shy students? Meet L.A. middle school teacher Enrique Legaspi and his students.
Yesterday was March 15, historically known as the Ides of March, on which, according to the dramatic the likes of Plutarch and Shakespeare, Julius...
Yesterday, we snickered at some accidental irony on the CBS News website: a piece related to Ted Stevens's corrupt dealings with the oil industry...
Last week, General Motors began the fourth largest bankruptcy proceedings in history, joining the many other large and venerable companies...
Yesterday, a statue of a man with very skinny legs became the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction in the world. Giacometti's walking...

Initial public offerings—when companies first make their stocks available for sale to the public—can generate incredible wealth. Last month, in...

If these sidewalks could talk.
Far beyond the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles lie acres of desert that are destined for development. But these hot, dry lands aren't going to be...
Forget these Best of the Decade lists, the Onion has the biggest stories of the past 4.5 billion years, ranging from evolution ("going great,"...
This is about as complete an inforgraphic on the American presidency as you're ever going to see. You can zoom in and view it in all its...
This fascinating video shows the entire country's voting patterns from 1920 to the present slowly fading from one election to the next.

Bigots are a dying breed: The United Nations has come out for gay rights for the fist time in its nearly 70-year history.