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  The Dutch Try a Kilometer Tax

  The Dutch have done something innovative. They're replacing the sales and ownership taxes on cars with a tax based on the amount people...

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• Lifestyle

  

  Video: Want a Baby? Try India

  India has become a hotspot for fertility clinics, which now paying Indian women to be surrogate mothers.

  by Ann Marie Gardner +

• Education

  

  Trying Out a Nonprofit Online "Academy"

  There's a nice piece in the San Francisco Chronicle today about the "Math Master of the Internet"-33-year-old Salman Khan, a hedgefunder turned...

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• Lifestyle

  

  Trying to Win Your Heart (Attack)

  Just in case you were worried that with all this talk about biking and healthy eating America is losing its je ne sais quoi: The owner of the...

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• GOOD Blog

  

  Keep Typing. Try Not To Be Alarmed.

  Have you licked your toilet seat recently? Sound gross? Try typing, or talking on your phone. A new study found that of 12 places in the average...

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• Culture

  

  Richard Dawkins Will Try to Arrest the Pope

  Pope Benedict is in trouble these days. There are new allegations that he covered up cases of sexual abuse in his former diocese near Munich....

  by Andrew Price 2

• News

  

  Try to Fix the Budget Yourself. It's Hard

  Right now, the United States' federal debt is about 66 percent of GDP. It's projected to grow to 100 percent by 2022, and keep growing...

  by Andrew Price 5

• News

  

  Digging Out from the Blizzard? Try a Bike Plow

  A Michigan man takes a novel approach to clearing his driveway.

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• Culture

  

  Should Journalists Who Witness Killings Try and Stop Them?

  A new killing in South Africa raises the question about when it's right to intervene to try and save a life.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Technology

  

  Is the Internet Destroying Your Brain? Try This Test

  Yesterday, The New York Times published a piece about how the constant distraction of digital media damages "creativity and deep thought,...

  by Andrew Price 32

• Design

  

  A Charge In the Bedroom: This New Bed Lets You Generate Energy On the Mattress

  Designers have turned a bed, a shower and a rocking chair into micro-power plants for your home.

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• Lifestyle

  

  Feast Your Eyes: Your Chance to Try NASA's Beef Pot Roast

  Forget astronaut ice-cream: This pouch of Beef Pot Roast is the real deal—a leftover from NASA's Apollo lunar program—and it's currently on sale.

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• Design

  

  Can Manhattan's High Line Be Replicated? Several Cities Are Trying

  Every week, it seems, a different city is pitching its old steel rails as the “next” High Line.

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• Culture

  

  Help Try and Destroy Stupid, Sexist, Racist Super Bowl Ads with This New Site

  New site "Add or Delete" crowdsources the commercials people hate and then lets them sound off on why they're bad.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• News

  

  Politicians Do a Great Thing; Special Interests Immediately Try to Destroy It

  A good-natured experiment in Massachusetts' Senate race is making PACs look even worse than they already do.

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• Environment

  

  GE Will Try to Reduce Energy Use by 70 Percent in a Few Test Cities

  GE is beginning a new experiment in a handful of test cities to see if it can achieve dramatic reductions in home energy use. The program will...

  by Andrew Price 4

• Cities

  

  Forget Twitter, Try Stickers: Low-Tech Project Inspires Community Engagement in New Orleans

  Candy Chang's civic engagement project has captured plenty of hearts and minds with the use of decidedly low-tech stickers and Sharpies.

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• Technology

  

  There Will Be No iTrain: Try Not to Get Too Caught Up in Apple's Announcement

  Anil Dash, tech blogger extraordinaire, put up a rather exceptional post on his blog this morning, lamenting the fact that a large segment of the...

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• Culture

  

  Say 300,000 Gay Men Disappeared, Nearly All at Once

  On trying to remember the height of the AIDS epidemic.

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• Environment

  

  We Can Save the Fish (But Only if We Try to)

  Back in 2006, the Canadian marine biologist Boris Worm authored a controversial study that warned that we could literally run out of fish by...

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