- April 8, 2009 • 10:10 pm 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

The Queen of Soul turns 69 today. Watching her squeeze every drop of amazing out of this Sam Cooke song.

Be a kid again. Play some Seussian games and watch one of his most powerfully poignant, yet positively playful stories.

Architecture for Humanity just issued their plan for aiding Japan's earthquake reconstruction efforts. Here's info on how you can aid their effort.
The Southern California beach Trestles, named after the nearby railroad tracks running up and down the coastline, is home to some of the most...

Does money buy happiness? Americans spent over $45 billion during Thanksgiving weekend, but we're still near the bottom of the Happy Planet Index.
Treehugger has a post weighing the decision in California's Santa Clara County to ban Happy Meal toys and similar kid-enticing promotions for...

Multimedia artist Jonathan Harris tells the story of Bhutanese happiness while overlooking the struggles of minority refugee groups
Today is the birthday of one Mr. Charles Darwin. While Darwin is painfully burning in hell as we speak, his influence on our world continues as...
Happy 9th birthday Kottke.org! You've been a beacon of fascination for years. How? Through pieces like this: "Men Look at Crotches." We, like you,...

In response to a deadly bombing, thousands of Muslims volunteer to protect Christian services by putting their bodies in harm's way.

What to watch for in energy and environmental policy as the 112th Congress convenes.
How embarrassing that we've waited until this late in the day to mention that today is Bloomsday how ever will we finish Joyce's entire oeuvre by...
Watch out!.
On this day, Dick Cheney was born, the Tet Offensive began, the Beatles performed for the last time, Adolf Hitler was sworn in, someone made...
Happy Pi Day..
Thought we should note the milestone. We have way too much time on our hands..
The 34th G8 Summit, which brought together the leaders of the world's eight richest industrialized democracies, wrapped up today. Here's what...
Collage, Donald Barthelme believed, was THE art form of the 20th century-well, according to the play and film Six Degrees of Separation, that...
It's the 20th anniversary of Photoshop. Our friends at Hyperakt made a fun video showing what the program can do and how they use it.
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, George Washington Carver High School's football team is, like many in New Orleans, still without a home field....