
Granted, there are some big problems inherent in using a consumer spending index as a yardstick of national health. However, an interactive consumer spending infographic can be damn elucidating. Way to be, New York Times.

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A new study appearing the Journal of Economic Perspectives examines grade inflation, a little quirk of college politics that pits majors...
Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have...
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Behold the flip side of the standardized testing quagmire, where education secretaries (as opposed to teachers and students) are taken to task for...
Behold a stylish girl wearing an invisible airbag-the genius new invention for bikers from (where else?) Sweden.

Goodyear is developing self-inflating tires for trucks and cars, while a San Francisco startup wants to do the same for bikes
Check out our national debt. It just keeps going up and up. That's not the kind of debt management you learn in school. You'll notice that it...

This new reality show puts 40 kids, ages 8-15, in an abandoned New Mexico mining town for 40 days. With "no parents" and "no teachers" they have...
You know how we've been running low on everything from oil to rice recently? Looks like the next commodity to start drying up might be doctors.
There is an estimated 2.194 billion square feet of rentable self-storage space in the United States. GOOD and Heavy Meta unpack.
At schools across the country, kids are taking standardized tests. These days, it seems like that's about all students do. Scantron forms,...
This nice infographic from the NYT shows gas prices around the nation and where they're taking the biggest toll. It looks like people in...
The Olympics will start tomorrow. Once people start winning medals, you will hear a lot of national anthems, especially Scandanavian anthems. To...
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Why do so many parents still refuse to have their children immunized?

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GOOD and Catalogtree look at the value of U.S. government contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wow, California is on fire (in the figurative, NBA Jam sense). Last Thursday the state's supreme court legalized gay marriage and today Bay...
Using data primarily from the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), FutureMajority.com put together...
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