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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
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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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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Make it by Monday: A DIY Valentine's Day
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
As the age of death rises in New York City, the "urban health penalty" myth is dying.
We remember with fondness the State Fairs of our youth. The ferris wheel, the giant watermelons, the needlepoint contests. Actually, we have no...
Morgan Clendaniel ambles around the ghost town that is Second Life in search of the digital frontier (and a cheap penis).
A new web-based zoological catalogue will store information about every single plant and animal on earth. Plus Big Thinker Wendy Kopp.
London's new School of Life, based in a Merchant Street storefront, offers courses on "the five central themes of our lives-work, play, family,...
We can't find the part of this crazed German architect's site that this drawing is from, but Treehugger has a larger picture. Underground...
Ira Glass, featured in this month's GOOD magazine, is converting his amazing radio program into a TV show on Showtime. Here is a teaser.
Artist Katherine Hubbard documents a year's worth of consumption.
Pirates are back in a big way thanks to the recent news from the Somali coast. Scientific American probes the zeitgeist with pirate expert Peter...
There aren't too many places in the world where you can't buy a Coke, and that includes some of the remotest parts of developing countries....
Watch what happened after the spill and after the cameras left.
A global snapshot of the cost of survival in several developing nations
Previous post aside, apparently, there is some concern amongst those industries that produce carbon dioxide that, perhaps, the latest outrage...
When people talk about climate change, the first easy solution they mention is to change your light bulbs to CFLs. Doing this will have a drastic...
Before Will Smith made homelessness a hit, an ex-Beavis and Butthead writer found himself on the streets after "a series of bizarre events."...
Much like reducing life to venn diagrams, this man has reduced his life to pie charts.Via Boing Boing.
Do something long enough and you can start to forget why you're doing it. This is the tenth year I've made at least part of a living writing about...
"The collapse of daily print journalism will mean many things. For those of us old enough to still care about going out on a Sunday morning for...
Two related articles caught my eye recently. Yesterday the BBC reported that light reflected off of city skyscrapers disrupts the behavior of...
From Florida to China, showcase "green" communities are popping up all over the globe. But some have already failed. Here are four model cities...
