Patrick James
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
When Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted last April, it created an ash cloud that disrupted air travel across Europe for days on end,...
NASA captures a photo of Italy's Stromboli Volcano erupting. Yes, we're only posting because it's called the "Stromboli Volcanco."
Here's a wonderful stop-motion animation of Manhattan's bustling streets, made over the course of a month by photographer Josh Owens.
This is 7 minutes of things being smashed in very slow motion. Please enjoy. Via Buzzfeed.
Hydrocolloids, like you've never seen them before.
Photographer Joe Capra presents the wonder of Iceland in a stunning time-lapse video created over 17 sleepless days and nights.
Rob Carter's film Metropolis charts the evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, through incredible stop-motion paper animation. Have a look at an...
This mesmerizing video, "Opera en el Mercado" (after the jump), follows what appears to be a group of Spanish market vendors-who turn out to be...
The team behind the forthcoming six-volume, 2,200-page tome Modernist Cuisine show us exactly what happens to a kernel of popcorn when it's...
PES, who showed us how to make "Western Spaghetti" in 2008, works his stop-motion magic again with his new short, "Fresh Guacamole."
We're familiar enough with Sigur Ros and Halldór Laxness to know that Iceland is a place of raw natural beauty. Former Microsofter Nathan...
Sounds like old news, we know, but two centuries after it was fossilized in a sheath of volcanic ash and pumice from the eruption of Mount...
Vikings. They're the vanguard of 21st-century democracy.
Not all hydroelectric power has to come from dams. Today, about 20 percent of the world’s power is hydroelectric. Nearly all of that...
Harvard students say they use Facebook in class because the lectures are boring.
Icelanders have always seemed to us to have an especially close relationship with the natural environment. See Sigur Ros' concert documentary or...
In Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's disastrous response to Obama's budget speech a few weeks ago, he singled out a $140 million appropriation as...
Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano had been from dormant for nearly two centuries until late March 2010, when, as The New York Times puts it,...
The internet is down in Egypt but there are still valuable resources you can use to follow the protests as they continue after the evening prayer.
