Figment.com, a new website for young writers to share their work and discuss favorite books and authors, just launched.
Figment.com, a new website for young writers to share their work and discuss favorite books and authors, just launched.

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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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GOOD Pictures: Go Outside
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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Policymakers and environmentalists are reconsidering the nuclear option. Plus Big Thinker Lawrence Lessig.
Al-Jazeera has just launched a "Creative Commons Repository." Right now, the repository has broadcast quality video footage of the network's...
If you're not already watching Top Gear, you should be. But if you needed another reason to watch, now you have one. The editors of the Top Gear...
The Sun-Times Media Group, the parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times and lots of smaller suburban newspapers, filed for bankruptcy yesterday....
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The iPad is not even three weeks old, and the predictions for how it will revolutionize education keep coming. The info-tech research company...
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Car-sharing services around the world are starting to embrace electric vehicles.

Record numbers of Americans support legalizing marijuana.
The co-founder of Google went to Washington to lobby for net neutrality, but found that meetings weren't so easy to come by. He also admitted that...