- June 29, 2009 • 1:13 pm PDT
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00:00/00:0000:00By Mickey and Johnnie.
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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 Seed Vault, which is keeping copies of every seed in the world in a secure vault in the Arctic Circle, is a source of endless fascination. We...
This chart from Phil Howard at Michigan State University shows how three chemical giants, Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, have come to...

Capture, by artist Christian Kerrigan: a frozen ecology of 1,000 seeds and flowers from Kingley Vale, England's last remaining ancient yew forest.

Researchers are increasingly envisioning a future in which geoengineering is a part of responding to climate change.
The U.S. Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 might be a sorry sight, but the U.K. Pavilion (video below), with its Seed Cathedral, is just...
Back in issue 002 we wrote about the plans for the Svalbard International Seed Vault. It was to be a bunker to "safeguard seeds of every known...
I love the idea of guerrilla gardening: subversively reclaiming the forgotten pockets of fertility in urban landscapes for the purposes of...
This company called the Survival Seed Bank has been advertising on Glenn Beck's show. For $149, they'll sell you a kit full of seeds so you...
Two Los Angeles designers have come up with an innovative way to make seed bombing easy for everyone. They're retrofitting old candy...
In this new series, we seek (nonbinding, fully disclaimed) legal opinions from practicing lawyer Kenny Ching on matters relating to the world of...
Last night, 60 Minutes profiled the first "urban, public boarding school" in the country: the SEED School of Washington, D.C. Like its previous...

When the collapse of Braddock, Pennsylvania's steel industry coincided with a population exodus in which 90 percent of its residents departed, a...
When you’re bequeathed several vintage gumball machines, the gift comes with a mandate to do something creative. But what? That was the dilemma...
That subject heading is kind of a stretch-a loose encapsulation of a new report I just read about on this New York Times blog. The report, done by...

The artist Tommy Wilson wants to seed-bomb every state in the nation.
Yoda, above, as a work of origami. Obi-Wan Kenobi, below, was folded from one 16-inch piece of Origamido paper.More amazing origami on the Flickr...
An upside-down world. Dumptrumpet via Core77..
If one were to visit the Coraline site and enter the code "moustachio," one would enjoy a super-duper stop motion treat courtesy of Bo Henry's...
There's actually a person in the center of that photo above. Desiree Palmen paints clothes to blend into a surrounding scene and then takes...
If it feels like the weekend is a long way away, consider the age of the sun. It's really pretty incredibly old. This Sun Clock site was created...