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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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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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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
According to a new study, life expectancy continues to rise in the developed world. Half the British babies born in 2007, for example, will likely...
The Life Clock, according to PSFK, is "a standard mechanical clock slowed by a factor of 61320, with a face that is broken down by year into 80...
Good/terrifying news! J. Craig Venter, the maverick geneticist, has created a new synthetic life form. Using an existing bacteria genome as a...
It's time to celebrate 50 years of endless ribbons of highways. In November of 1956, the interstate highway system opened its first 8-mile stretch...
All the cars and trucks driving down highways are producing a lot of energy, as well as a lot of pollution. Here is an idea that would convert...
Building a major highway through a city reduces that city's population by 18 percent. That is the finding of a new study by Brown University...
Check out this amazing recreation of the highways as a subway map. While there are no geographic features, it sure makes it easier to envision any...
With the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf on the way, a new crop of electric cars is just about ready for America. But is America ready for...
The United States has added new routes to its national bike system for the first time in 30 years.
This Picture Show originally appeared in GOOD Issue 18: The Slow Issue. You can read more from The Slow Issue here. There was a time, not long...
Along Massachusetts highways, local farmers offer an alternative to the Golden Arches.
You’d be hard-pressed to think of something more unfair than the life of a young refugee—especially one with no forthcoming prospects of...
A new Greenpeace report show just how much energy it takes to run our internet lives.
In the 1960s, a system was authorized by LBJ that put lots of money in Appalachian state coffers. Aiming to reduce the isolation and inconvenience...
The Lone Star State: Still not convinced that schools need money.
We remember with fondness the State Fairs of our youth. The ferris wheel, the giant watermelons, the needlepoint contests. Actually, we have no...
Morgan Clendaniel ambles around the ghost town that is Second Life in search of the digital frontier (and a cheap penis).
A new web-based zoological catalogue will store information about every single plant and animal on earth. Plus Big Thinker Wendy Kopp.
London's new School of Life, based in a Merchant Street storefront, offers courses on "the five central themes of our lives-work, play, family,...
Oil is an expensive resource that is rapidly becoming harder to find. Eventually, we are going to have to find a new renewable fuel source to...
