Andrew PriceSpecialized and Google's "Innovate Or Die" contest is over. They've announced the winner (survivor?).
The challenge was to harness a bike's humble pedaling mechanism to achieve great things for humanity. If this sounds tough, witness the incredible simplicity, usefulness and thoughtfulness of the winning design: the Aqueduct bike. We're impressed. Does it come in other colors?
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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
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday about whether the three-drug cocktail that's used in lethal injection executions might cause an...
In our Business of Death video, we mentioned that there are some more ecologically sensitive ways to deal with your earthly remains than the...
Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist and chairman of the Methuselah Foundation (and, apparently, president of the Methuselah lookalike...
While you may be worried of catching of an obscure disease you heard about on the news, the truth is that we are far more likely to die of a...
These five organizations are on to something. See how they are making lives better in sustainable, scalable and social important ways.
Detective John McClane has taken on terrorists before, but you know what's an especially hard way to die? Diarrhea. Water-related diseases aren't fun.
Go behind the scenes of the new Die Hard with Excess Access to learn about how Bruce Willis dealt with working with waterborne diseases.
Rita Flórez on the unique appeal of D.I.Y. publications in the age of blogs.
In the minds of far too many Americans, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are little more than ideas: words and phrases bandied about by...
Obama should have know that an actual long-form birth certificate wasn't going to quell the mobs. Meet your new conspiracy theorists.
We're holding our first event in the "GOOD Conversations" series tomorrow in New York. It's called "Mavericks of Education." We're going to sit...
"I met them in Sierra Leone. Former rebels, shopkeeper, barbers–now calling themselves Iraq vets."
Today at Slate, Adrian Chen assembles a video exploring the ludicrous lack of death in the animated series G.I. Joe, which, you'll remember, is...
Thousands of aid workers and development professionals picked the 40 most innovative groups in their field. See who they left out.
Whether it’s Steven Tyler, Miley Cyrus, or sorority girls all across the country, demand for long "saddle feathers" is way, way up.
USA Today bemoans the fact that you're more likely to die than get fired from a federal job. An economist says this makes perfect sense.
The artist Candy Chang has transformed an abandoned house in New Orleans into a public forum where people declare what they want to do before dying.
Today, Harper's takes a look back at the swine flu hysteria that dominated the week of April 27th: "Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby...
While a death row prisoner awaits his fate, Texas justice under Governor Rick Perry has become more dangerous than air travel.
The Schaibles' son died when they prayed for his pneumonia to go away instead of taking him to a hospital. Should they have gone to jail?
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