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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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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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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
This illustration originally appeared as the Graphic Statement for GOOD Issue 018: The Slow Issue. You can see the full image here. You can...
A giant virtual suggestion box for New York residents will launch in May, asking citizens for ideas on how they'd green their city.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been shifting course under the new administration do do more protecting of the environment. As part of...
Pictures from Detroit Civic Intervention, a 48-hour, all-hands-on-deck workshop to renew a local landmark.
Our friends over at Code for America, the Teach for America-inspired civic software project we mentioned in the Neighborhoods Issue, are...
This week's first ever Gov 2.0 expo and summit in Washington, D.C., re-orients what Web 2.0 will mean, not just for consumers and the piranha pond...
Maybe civics education isn't dead after all.
College students voted in record numbers in 2008, but getting a degree won't make you more likely to attend a protest or work on a political campaign.
According to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, only a third of Americans can name one of the three branches of the federal...
Danica McKellar is counting on girls to love numbers.
GOOD Guide to North Korea, a North Korean Civics Lesson
A toy set for your atrophying math muscles.
It turns out that the more inclusive your politics, the happier you'll be.
When you crunch the numbers, a plant-based diet always wins. Here's more proof.
Math for America--a left-brained Teach for America founded by former mathematician and hedge fund billionaire James Simons--is trying a new...
A musician turns the famous mathematical constant into a lovely tune.
How large numbers can trick us into thinking they represent large quantities of food—and what that means for mandatory calorie counts.
Math anxiety isn't just a fear of numbers or laziness, it's a measurable emotional reaction—and researchers are working on ways to get rid of it.
For the first time ever, U.S. News and World Report ranked high schools by students' math and science performance.
Dan Meyer is a high school math teacher in California. He's on a crusade to put the "problems" back in math problems. As he demonstrates in his...
