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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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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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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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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
Volkswagen's new electric take on the Microbus might be cool, but this guy's plug-in conversion is a thing of beauty.
The New York Times examines what some cities-most of them in the San Francisco Bay Area-are doing to prepare for this new crop of plug-in cars,...
Spend a lot of time on the internet? Check how well you know your logosVia Boing Boing.
After months and months of hearing about six figures, sexy curves, and four seconds from zero to sixty, isn't time to find out how the Tesla...
A nice way to start out your week is to find out if you're racist (and by racist we simply mean that you make troublesome associations about race,...
The digital age. It's a strange place. Instead of taking your anger out on your girlfriend, or playing Halo or something, why not electronically...
We cannot stress enough how excited we are for test tube meat. So excited. It looks like it's getting closer and closer. Except the whole wont...
How Obama can overcome incredulous reactions and truly earn his Nobel Peace Prize in Copenhagen. They're still scraping jaws off the floors of...
Eleven steps for peeing on a stick.
In an attempt to find out how banks are handling the current hard times, the government will soon start applying a "stress test," to see if the...
Crash test dummies, or anthropomorphic test devices, are replications of human forms and weight distributions, used to study potential human...
North Korea tested another nuclear weapon over the weekend (didn't they know it was Memorial Day?), adding another scary note to their quest to...
Putting aside for a moment the dietary arguments against drinking cow's milk—we're not calves, it's liquid meat, it's snot-producing, so hard to...
A new study compares the benefits of lab-grown meat to the real stuff.
It’s what you’ve done, not how you scored.
Yesterday Iran tested what is apparently a medium range Shahab-3 ballistic missile. The fear (or the fear they hoped to induce) is that they can...
An inner-city schoolteacher bemoans the beginning of Test Prep Season. Here in New York, it’s that time of year again. Central Park is abloom...
The Bechdel test—named for the cartoonist Alison Bechdel who wrote a long-running comic strip called Dykes To Watch Out For and the critically...
A bill making its way through the Missouri legislature seeks to have welfare recipients drug tested. Is this good or bad?
The latest news on Egypt's "virginity tests" during the uprisings reveals a serious Madonna/whore complex. Unfortunately, we have one, too.
