- September 19, 2007 • 10:08 am PDT
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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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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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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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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
Dymaxion: Wave of the Future: Fuller designed a car, a house, a world map, and a new sport.
Where's My Floating City?: Fuller came up with thousands of ideas that never even got to the prototype stage.
Guinea Pigs and Billionaires: Underpinning all of Fuller's work was the steady hum of optimism.
What the Buck Was He Talking About?: If some of Fuller's concepts seem obscure, it may have more to do with the terminology than the ideas themselves.
New Synergists: Ideas like cohousing, smart growth, alternative energy, and recycling all owe fuller a debt.

The winner of "socially responsible design's highest award" will be announced tomorrow. Here are the four awesome, world-changing finalists.
British architect Norman Foster has painstakingly reproduced the Dymaxion Car, a famous 1933 vehicle designed by Buckminister Fuller.

We asked the inventor-illustrator Steven M. Johnson to find examples of products and ideas that move the world forward in creative ways.
