- August 30, 2006 • 10:37 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
What's the most efficient way to get around? Planes might burn a lot of fuel, but they also are filled with people, making each gallon go a lot...

The American market for trucks is still vastly bigger than the global market for the Prius. Does that need to change?
A technology that is speeding up the developing world's internet connections. Internet connections in the developing world are getting a boost...
Tina Brown's new imprint will focus on fast books. Can they stack up? Speed writing seems to be the flavor of the week. First we were graced...
What happened to the customer always being right? Toyota has other ideas, since it issued a broadside late Monday challenging the account...
Car makers have, apparently, imagined building an injury-proof car-one that would keep passengers unharmed in any crash-for a while now. We didn't...
And here's an interesting collection of facts about speeding tickets from Autoblog:Do you think the number of tickets goes up when economic growth...
Warp six, Mr. Scott. This is the seventh part in an eight-part series on the future of transportation. New articles published every...

On Sunday, the owners and makers of electric vehicles will gather for the first National Plug In Day.

A speedy new condom could help prevent HIV's spread in a matter of seconds.
Astrophysicist Jason Steffen has made a discovery, but it has less to do with galaxy magnifying glasses than it does boarding airplanes.The...
In an inventive (and slightly unnerving) move, the city of Vancouver will release a new brand of speed bump that uses an optical illusion to...

First Murdoch snags Joel Klein, and now a company that designs educational software. Will he bring digital learning in K-12 into the mainstream?

If it can be scaled up, a new type of nanomaterial—referred to as "nanoscoops"—could charge electric vehicles 40 to 60 times as fast.
Infrastructurist points us to a fascinating report by America2050 (I hadn't heard of them either: they are "a national initiative to meet the...

Florida governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion of high-speed rail. Can the Northeast line get that love?

I’m supposed to meet my husband here.
The ban on gay marriage passed (sigh-come on, California) but at least we also passed Proposition 1A, the Safe, Reliable High Speed Passenger...
In Finland, speeding tickets are based not only on how fast you're driving, but also on how much money you make. Mental Floss has a great rundown...
As if motorcycles weren't impressive enough already, now they're starting to shed the terribly un-hip (by modern standards) internal combustion...
