A new website shows you how chemicals and the razzle dazzle of molecular gastronomy might save the world, or at least reduce your carbon footprint.
You only have to watch a few minutes of this dorm building light show (from Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland) to be thoroughly...

We are now armed with our most powerful weapon yet: a voice.

Yesterday's Pentagon report that service members support repealing "don't ask, don't tell." Nate Silver looks into the public opinion polls.

In April, 1,000 people turned out for a peaceful march in honor of a man who died during a police raid. Nobody listened to them.
In the wake of the EPA's rejection of California's attempt to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases, we're left asking, for lack of a more...
Take your reading with you. Handbags made from old books.Via Great Green Goods.
There's something very American about mobility. We like our freedom to roam, to follow opportunity, to move westward as the saying goes. We like...
Now that hybrid cars are standard, an aviation expert argues that it's time to put hybrid engines in the air. This is the eighth and final part...
Jason Rohrer's new game takes improvisation to the next level. One of the central tenets of gaming is that the computer remains an active...

Step inside this old-timey cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, the last vestige of an earlier time
Last spring I moderated a panel at GOOD's offices here in Los Angeles. about public transportation and the community. As discussions about public...

Get some arctic ice now, before it's too late!
Check out what public schools in France feed their students. It might cause salivation.
For the record, the following Deli Mayo advertisement is not offensive. It's clever. It's charming. It even makes us consider purchasing some...

After the Senate's historic vote on Saturday, how soon will the repeal go into effect?
Nearly a year ago, GlaxoSmithKline's CEO Andrew Witty announced he intended to cut drug prices in developing countries, invest in hospitals and...

California just passed a law mandating that schools teach LGBT history. Will this help the next generation dissolve homophobia?

Catholic University of America is instituting sex-segregated dorms in an effort to curb "risky" sexual behavior. It will only make sex riskier.
Hat tip to Julie's Health Club blog over at The Chicago Tribune, which pointed to a collaboration between Whole Foods and the Food, Family,...