- February 8, 2008 • 2:46 pm PST
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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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
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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
Ever since Al Gore assumed the mantel of climate-change-crusader-in-chief, he's been dogged by a vocal group of critics (led by PETA) who accuse...

Better World Books is linking used book sales to charity causes with the buy one, give one model.
Health care reform is currently a major issue before the U.S. Congress. Health insurance providers-who stand to become more regulated or have...

The Mutual is a socially conscious business that mixes self-interest and eco-philanthropy.

Instead of just memorizing formulas, math education needs to teach kids to solve real-world problems.

Olbermann gets suspended for funding political candidates. Why is on-air support for candidates OK, but not financial support? For a few reasons.

Why an alarm clock that encourages you to give to charity might signal a wave of new micro-philanthropy apps.

Our environment editor is off on a 5-day ride from NYC to DC for climate change awareness. Here's why he thinks activism still matters.

iPads are extremely useful educational tools, so it's nice that Apple is helping to funnel used first-generation models to schools that need them.
Elementary school student Jocelyn Lam emptied her piggy bank to save pink slipped teachers. Now she's inspired an entire community to do the same.

After getting so much publicity for getting their ad rejected last year, PETA has gone even farther with the "vegetables are sexy concept."

I love my husband and plan to stay with him. Also, I wish we had never gotten married.

We shouldn't be so surprised that major corporations don't support our values, even if they have an alternative vibe.
A look at the perennial blizzard of Mad Lib-like clichés Recently, on my blog Wordlustitude, I recalled an old roommate with extreme eating...

The physical contact remained— “remained” being the key word.

Be it music, movies, or TV, American culture just can't get enough of mocking transgender people. Here's why that needs to stop.

Forget symbolic acts and solar panels. Bill McKibben wants to shame political leaders by showing them what real work on climate change looks like.

Incensed by Obama, frustrated with the cowboys in Congress: What's a conservative voter to do?
The public is not happy about the $165 million in retention bonuses that A.I.G. employees got last Friday. A.I.G. claimed that, even though it...