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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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People Are Awesome: Politicians Slash Gas Prices for Needy Drivers
Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler are the creators of Bicycle Portraits, a regularly updated project to photograph people and their bikes around...
Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler's Bicycle Portraits is an ongoing project to photograph everyday South Africans and their bikes. Earlier this...
Peanut butter in a soup? Really? Believe us: It was delicious!
Inexpensive, innovative tools can help small farmers in Africa fight global hunger.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, which provides microfinance loans to poor...
First an Oscar nom, and now the Peace Prize? We remember Al Gore back when he was underground, before he got all mainstream..
The X Prize shakes gives stagnant industries a shot of entrepreneurial innovation. Plus Big Thinker Peter Diamandis.
Treehugger has some rather unsettling news: The German zoo Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen has sold three lions to a South African park that offers...
Kings County applies African health strategies to low-income communities outside of Seattle.
Nothing But Nets reports good news about the spread of malaria nets in the Central African Republic
With a dozen African countries on the brink of elections, we assess which are most likely to see a popular revolt.
Two American men, Craig Mello and Andrew Fire have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2006 for their work on RNA Interference and their...
Samantha Power takes on the worst the world has to offer.
The Nobel Peace Prize is announced in October and speculation is heating up (in certain circles, maybe).InTrade.com has set up a market to trade...
Peter Diamandis must be so happy. The incentive-happy man behind the X-Prize has been loudly advocating for a competitive focus to innovation....
Every year, the organization known simply as TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) awards three "exceptional individuals" with...
"I met them in Sierra Leone. Former rebels, shopkeeper, barbers–now calling themselves Iraq vets."
Scientists have found 95-million-year-old ancestors of modern spiders, wasps, ferns, and wingless ants inside samples of fossilized African amber....
The basic contradiction of a World Cup is plain. All that heady populism—Davids taking on Goliaths in the sport everyone can afford to play—is...
African web entrepreneurs rarely receive the support they need, but a foundation training program is helping Ghanaians put their mark on the web.
