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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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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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Back in March, This American Life told the long, tragic tale of Northern California's NUMMI auto manufacturing plant. Opened in 1984 as a joint...
It’s deep August—a season of forgetting, a time when we’re all at the beach, at least mentally. No surprise that major sporting events slip past...
Scrambling to break even, the Kansas City, Missouri School District closed two dozen schools this summer. In a district so shaky that many have...
If there’s no way to dramatically reduce the risk of death in auto racing, it’s time to ban the wildly popular sport altogether.
Remember Toyota's electric Rav4? It's back-in Tesla-powered form. Here's first look.
All the carmakers are jumping on the electric bandwagon. Inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher checks out the Detroit Auto Show's new reveals.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, which provides microfinance loans to poor...
In the vein of Peter Diamandis, this African cell phone magnate has just offered a $5 million dollar prize to the best leader of an African...
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.
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...
A prize, unlike a research grant, goes to someone who solves a problem, rather than just working on it.That's just one of the virtues of...
Usually, the Nobel Prize for economics is won by someone for some really complex thing that doesn't make any sense to the average person. Today,...
Healthy Competition The X Prize Foundation, which creates competitions to encourage technological development, already succeeded in inspiring...
The winners of the 2008 TED Prize were announced last week. They're physicist Neil Turok, religious historian Karen Armstrong, and author and...
Congratulations to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Norwegian Nobel...
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