- October 12, 2009 • 1:09 pm PDT
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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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Re: Keep Walking, Except For You In The Noose:I guess I am not the only person who has been sleeping poorly. Ever since Saddam Hussein was...
"New" words that are actually old as dirt. Pop culture sure has a way of spreading new words, like when Stephen Colbert invented "truthiness"...

Delightful video profiles of nocturnal Washingtonians, from a karaoke cab driver to a bat rehabilitator

For October's challenge, we're asking you to get healthy, from your feet to your teeth to your brain.
For our Inventions series, Nick Kroll wants to create the KtD 3000, a modified Toyota Tercel that can turn cats into dogs. Why? Put it this...
Our lives are becoming increasingly customizable. From Tivo to ring tones to virtual dashboards and RSS feeds, we can re-arrange and...

Eight hours sleep is the most direct route to beauty and even better health.

It seems that women in commercials just can't get enough of men who buy things.
You may not think about it all the time, but somewhere, in the back of your mind, you wish you could do a backflip. With Nick Thune’s...
Tomlinson Holman knows a thing or two about sound. He created the THX standard for sound systems (THX actually stands for Tomlinson Holman's...
As a cutting-edge video artist, Lincoln Schatz is familiar with the different ways in which we perceive the world. It is no surprise, then,...
Do you ever get the feeling that some world leaders and captains of industry are simply suffering from an empathy deficit? Majora Carter, the...
There is no natural remedy more powerful than a good slumber. And yet so few of us get enough of it. Here's how to power up your sleep routine.
Most people seem to be in agreement these days that simple ideas often offer the best solutions. Here's an invention that fits the bill perfectly....
Some truly terrible people end up getting treated really well just because they are, quote-unquote, attractive. It's unfair, and linguist John...
In the digital age we can send texts and pics to anyone, anywhere, instantly. But how might we share feelings? Through our feet, obviously....
On tour with her band Morningwood, Chantal Claret often has to find dinner on the road... at 3 a.m. That makes it hard to eat well. But...

Reports coming out of Bahrain say that police shot into a crowd of sleeping protesters early Thursday morning. One person is dead.

