
The Onion does Wikipedia doing the Declaration of Independence, which was signed 750 years ago, today.

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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
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Watch this mind-bending video of a lego recreation of the oldest known scientific computer, an amazingly precise set of gears built in 100 BCE.

Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

Here's how to show support for Tim DeChristopher, aka Bidder 70, as he goes on trial today for his powerful and urgen act of civil disobedience.
That heartening piece of news I posted earlier about the Chamber of Commerce dramatically reversing its stance on climate legislation seemed a...
If you have the day off, there's still time to do some volunteering, as Obama has suggested. Obama's service website, USAService.org, has a...
Read this amazing story about lions stranded on an island that have developed into super lions. No really, it's fascinating. Read it. And watch...
Al Gore announces a "bigger than Live Aid" concert series for folks that need to get their planetary updates from rock stars. Gore was also by...
John Dyer has dedicated plenty of blog-space to beards. And why shouldn't he? Beards are the best things that men can grow. Like most real men,...
Our columnist Joel Johnson posted a few months ago, arguing that people needed to buck up and accept digital TV. It generated quite a bit of ire...
Would you be willing to own a piece of technology history while at the same time subsidizing the computer use of people worldwide? Then join in...
If you were a Muslim who ended up at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 not because you were a terrorist, but because you were in the wrong place at the wrong...
This video is a classic Disney cartoon. Apparently worried that today's kids wouldn't be into Donald Duck's baking getting the better of him,...

Call a special number and your voice will broadcast on the streets of New York. It's art.

Starting today through May 20, cast a vote for your favorite nonprofit and help them win the Reinventing the Outdoors contest. Vote now!

The Reinventing the Outdoors contest is over at midnight tonight. Make your vote count—one organization will win $50K!
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission gets to work today, interrogating CEOs, academics, and economists to find out why our financial system...