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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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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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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
The model for the 141 Eyewear company is in its name: You buy one pair of their well-designed frames; they give a pair to someone who needs them.
In what should not be a blow to supporters of tiny cars like the Yaris and the Smart, crash test results released today by the Insurance Institute...
Guests at this year's International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland got a sneak peek at the future of electric cars. According to Treehugger,...
A superb new teaser for One Day on Earth, a cinematic time capsule of the entire planet, shot in every country in the world on October 10, 2010.
This is part nine of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Richard...
Fantastic article in the new Atlantic, by urban theorist Richard Florida. We mentioned it the other day, but it's worth looking at again. It's...
The One Job for America campaign is asking all businesses to hire one new person, and spread the word. Will you help?
See glorious photos of a heroic trailblazer who escaped forced marriage, built a business, and inspired a village.
Learn about amazing organizations that are redefining the way we live and play outside—and help one win $50,000!
Yesterday, the government got Wall Street banks to pay $26 billion in penalties for screwing people over. Is it enough?
The world's first billion-dollar home, commissioned for a petrochemical tycoon (surprise!) from India, will be a 27-story skyscraper in downtown...
As you may have heard, the government is going to spend around $700 billion dollars (the exact amount is still unclear; it could be more) to buy...
There's a bill coming to a vote in the House soon that would make our public schools much, much better: "Last week a House panel approved the...
And here's another nice film project. Eight Billion Lives is an online platform for documentary films that focus on the world's non-famous...
An amazing map that visualizes population density using circles of different color and size.
$611 billion. It's the cost of the war in Iraq if Bush's latest request for cash is approved.With that much money we could convert all the cars in...
The world's first $1 billion home, a 27-story tower in Mumbai, built for India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is complete.
Big New Ideas explores the parallels between modern marijuana policy and the prohibition of alcohol nearly a century ago.
In a late vote Thursday night, the House approved a $858 billion tax bill. The President is expected to sign it Friday.
Our kids will be living with 10 billion in 2100. Will they be eating anything?
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