- December 11, 2006 • 9:32 pm PST
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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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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
This is a disturbing story. Those unmanned drones we've been using in Iraq and Afghanistan had some unforeseen security holes and got...
Not only are robots being used for military offensives, but they are also being deployed to rescue wounded soldiers. These robot medics can...
We've learned about robots that spy, rescue, aid, survey, and defuse. In the final episode of our "Military Robots" series, we encounter robots...
Robots are assisting soldiers both on the battlefield and off. Some 30,000 men and women have lost limbs over the course of the conflict in...
The capture of the U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers was one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War. In modern warfare, high-flying surveillance...
October, 2006: The U.N. sanctioned a long list of delectable goods that could no longer pass over North Korea's borders. This was no typical...
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail...
Wars, famine, and natural disasters are just a few of the reasons people are forced to leave their homes and flee their countries. Around the...
Of all the awfulness of war, this is worse. To mark tomorrow's seven-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, this weekend's New York Times...
U.S. Army enlistment rates from the Revolutionary War to today.
Self-preservation is something that most humans take quite seriously, and that a few take to extremes. Faced with the real or imagined threat of...
In the minds of far too many Americans, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are little more than ideas: words and phrases bandied about by...
In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living...
One of the ways that Obama attempted to differentiate himself from the left during the campaign was his support of nuclear power, which is touted...
Tech Missions Technology evangelists and coaches could function as a mobile “genius bar,” going out to every neighborhood via exploration buses...
The singularity may be near, as Ray Kurzweil says, but our series, Singularity 101, is taking a break this week for the holidays. The next post...
This prototype of a system called "skinput" (and it is definitely a prototype) lets you use your forearm or fingers to control your electronics....
We live in a society that has refined its measurement of economic activity to an extreme degree. Indeed, many of the measures that we rely on...
Google Analytics for Learning Cities should measure the impact of learning more closely, because education reduces unemployment and poverty...
Leila Chirayath Janah, a friend of GOOD, recently launched a nonprofit venture called Samasource. Samasource aims to connect educated workers in...
