Nishant Patel
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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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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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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?
Fantastic article in the new Atlantic, by urban theorist Richard Florida. We mentioned it the other day, but it's worth looking at again. It's...
The One Job for America campaign is asking all businesses to hire one new person, and spread the word. Will you help?
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The FDA has long fought to regulate and cut back the widespread use of antibiotics in animal feed, which has created resistant super bugs that...
In our well-worn copy of the copy of Constitution, "freedom of the press" comes right in between "freedom of speech" and "the right to peaceably...
WorldChanging links to a very interesting interview with the author of a new book called OneSmallProject. Wes Janz has documented the...
No matter where you come down on the file sharing debate (from Shawn Fanning to Lars Ulrich), you can't help but think this is getting a little...
The WSJ online requires a subscription that we, sadly, don't have. So, we bring you the news from that paper a day late and a dollar short. But,...
A few days ago, the Weather Channel, on their climate change website called One°, published the One Degree Hot List, a list of the people most...
Alex Steffen says solving our current planetary crisis could lead to an unimaginably good future. Here's how we get there. as told to...
On the pop culture Richter scale, this went all the way up to 11. As you probably know by now, the April 26 event known as Boobquake drew more...
This is a video of Mark Ecko tagging Air Force One. We are pretty sure it's fake, because you clearly cannot just sneak up to Air Force One on the...
New York Times writer Jonathan Raban offers his take on William Langewiesche's new book, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. Raban,...
New York Times writer Jonathan Raban offers his take on William Langewiesche's new book, The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. Raban,...
Every year Petco sponsors these chihuahua races. "Petco Unleashed" they're called.First there are regional competitions. The winner from each...
Siobhan O'Connor gets to know the residents of Cabrini-Green-one of Chicago's largest units of soon-to-be-destroyed public housing.
Don Milani di Rivoli elementary school in Turin, Italy, will eschew the use of text books in favor of water-proof, mini-laptops for its 60...
Over at Marginal Revolution, a reader emailed about how he recently visited the only Ethiopian restaurant in New Zealand. It's run by 31-year-old...
How do students learn effectively in a classroom where the student-to-teacher ratio is 30:1? After reading Michael Salmonowicz’s Tutor For Every...
