- November 22, 2006 • 2:03 pm PST
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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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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Olbermann gets suspended for funding political candidates. Why is on-air support for candidates OK, but not financial support? For a few reasons.

In a time when Americans rarely talk about AIDS, we recall the cultural icons that helped educate millions of '90s kids.

Watch a killer craftsman take a cracked skateboard and turn it into a one-of-a-kind pair of shades.
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Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, and according to legend that means we're in for six more weeks of winter. But Phil has a motley...

Ever confused about economics concepts like cost-benefit analysis or externality? Perhaps a new site that uses Seinfeld to illustrate them can help.
A surprising lesson that one teacher learns in teaching about genocide. Images of the Holocaust are projected onto my blackboard. The piles of...

How a student named Martin proved that first impressions are not always what they seem. A few years ago, I taught a low-income, first-generation...

If jobs are the big economic problem, the ten organizations that create the most of them must have something to tell us.

Most teachers dismiss Jay-Z because of his hustler past, but there's plenty to learn from his massive success.
City Year corps members based in Los Angeles write about their experiences.Everyone has their own reason for joining City Year and those reasons...
City Year corps members based in Los Angeles write about their experiences. Coming back to City Year for a second year has been an amazing and...

What happens when the money runs out? How to secure a long-term impact through philanthropy.

How the top performers in Sierra Magazine's "greenest college" survey make their sustainability goals real.
Problem: Gorillas might attack you if you look them in the eye. Solution: these stylish glasses. After a woman was attacked by an escaped gorilla...
Alaska is the latest state chosen to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy's "Wind For Schools" program. The state will receive $60,000 a...
The other day, I saw something interesting: Business Insider ran a list called "The Twenty Hot New York City Start-ups You Need to Watch," and...
Nearly three weeks into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the full extent of the damage seems far from surfacing. And that dome they tried plugging...

Friends keep asking me if Moneyball is good, but I have no idea. How can you evaluate the quality of your own home movies?