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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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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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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
How Liz Lemon and company have enriched our lexicon. Since its debut in 2006, there hasn't been a more quotable comedy than 30 Rock. Memorable...
What we don't know about early America Sometimes I think my conception of Revolutionary America was imprinted on my brain by Schoolhouse Rock,...
You may know Stephin Merrit as the brilliant voice behind the brilliant band Magnetic Fields. You may also know him and the cloying and annoying...
Last Thursday, Body of War screened at the South By Southwest conference/festival. Tomorrow, Sire releases the soundtrack. The two-cd set features...
We hope you've had an opportunity to peruse Adam Leith Gollner's Guide to Guidebooks, a breakdown of five notable travel books from Lonely Planet...
We hope you've had an opportunity to peruse Adam Leith Gollner's Guide to Guidebooks, a breakdown of five notable travel books from Lonely Planet...
Music festival season is in full swing. We warmed up at South by Southwest, recovered financially (back to zero), and then eeeeased our way back...
A guide to our language for seasonal storms. Though I prefer to focus on linguistic developments that are humorous or at least harmless-like...
Art takes many forms, but often, the media remain the same. Not so in Chandigarh, India, where an unlikely artist, 82-year-old Nek Chand, uses the...
Friends of the Pleistocene examine contemporary foodscapes for traces of geologic time, from seed vaults to radioactive salt.
Well, this is awesome: a charming-looking rocking horse that harvests kinetic energy while kids play on it. As it gathers more energy, the lights...
New York rock band Atomic Tom performs on the subway using just iPhones for instruments. Viral marketing genius.
Last night, President Obama outlined his budget plan in a non-State-of-the-Union speech before a joint session of Congress. It was pretty great to...
Overthinking It has a thought-provoking chart (view at full size here) that pits the declining quality of rock music against the declining amount...
The French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot placed a number of electric guitars and other instruments in an aviary full of zebra finches for his...
Are you still looking for a way to help Haiti? Are you in the Los Angeles area? Then read on! Our friends over at Causecast are hosting Cause on...
I came across these great murals outside of GAFTA.
When wind turbines need maintenance or repairs, you want people who are comfortable working 300 feet above ground, hanging from a rope.
The chorus that wowed half a billion people with their Oscars performance is back.
