Patrick James
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
French conceptual artist Sophie Calle debuted her latest break-up obsession project at the Vienna Biennial last month.In Prenez Soin de Vous (Take...
A Twitter sensation skewers the media (and grammar Nazis too). If you've ever been tortured by the APA, MLA, AP, or Chicago Manual of Style...
Valentino Deng, the central figure in Dave Eggers's What Is the What, is turning the dream of education into a reality for Sudanese...
Michael Atkinson on the uncelebrated genius of Peter Watkins.
Let's say you're in surgery, having a life-saving operation, and the power cuts out. Then imagine it stays out for a few hours, days, or even...
Jacob Barnett is also working on an "expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity" and plans to disprove the big bang theory.
Everyone's favorite Nostradamus has some new predictions worth looking at. Nate Silver, the genius numbers guy behind Fivethirtyeight.com, has a...
This pirate-hunting business is heating up. Emphasis on the word "business," too. After a few decades of quiet operations attempting to crack down...
Wooster has a great post on The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists and its Instant Grant Program, which, having raised...
iPads are extremely useful educational tools, so it's nice that Apple is helping to funnel used first-generation models to schools that need them.
Our hearts go out to the people of Oakland today, where the city is mourning the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by police on New Year's...
Wildlife and wetlands just got a big boost from Uncle Sam. Recently, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Migratory Bird...
Reinventing the Outdoors contest: Find out how to help organizations like Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists work and play in nature.
Which event idea should we grant $500 to help people connect?
The Obama Administration revealed yesterday that the fund for Pell Grants is short $18 billion, the largest shortfall in the 36 years that the...
Getting a key to the city has long been an honor reserved for a town's most venerable citizens. In other words, it's long been a pretty stupid...
A month ago, we encouraged our readers to vote for the winner of Nau's annual Grant for Change. Out of 124 nominees who proposed projects that...
150 years ago, the government founded land-grant universities to keep agriculture alive in the U.S. What should they be teaching today?
Nau, the sustainable clothing company (read about them more here), kicked off their annual Grant for Change contest this May, and now the polls...
Our partners at the Pepsi Refresh Project are giving away millions of dollars again this year to help put real money behind worthy ideas.
