
Yesterday, the internet was aflutter with rumors that the prison in Guantanamo Bay was about to be closed. Turns out those were just rumors. The consensus seems to have been greatly exaggerated. The extended Cuban vacation continues!

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In the OpenCourseWare movement, the future of learning is on your laptop. Among the topics Bill Gates discussed in his foundation's annual...
A design student at Catholic U in DC has a project on Flickr, wherein he is designing a house with input from the online community. A pretty cool...
Free Knowledge 101 As tuition costs for higher education continue to rise toward utter out-of-handedness, the open-courseware movement offers...
We're opening a Pop-Up Community Center in New York tonight and some of us are a little miffed about being stuck on the west coast because it...
Last Saturday we chipped in at 826 Boston's grand opening. There was leech ballet and giant crab wrestling and an auction led by MC Eugene Mirman...
For all the controversy surrounding freedom-hating China's role as host of the Olympic games, you've got to admit they put on one helluva warm-up...
For all its merits, London isn't one of United Kingdom's best cities for cycling. A recent poll ranked it 17th. But Mayor Boris Johnson is trying...
The 2,684 foot Burj Dubai-the world's tallest man-made structure-opened today. Der Spiegel has a nice photo gallery from the tower. And...
The Newseum-Washington D.C.'s $450 million contemporary shrine to journalism-will officially open its doors to the public April 11. In an attempt...
The Open Everything conference is happening in New York City at the UNICEF headquarters on April 18. Their mission statement: "Open Everything...
After years of dreaming, designing, and campaigning, the first section of the High Line park-built on top of an old elevated rail structure-opened...
This Friday, GOOD, TakePart, Social Vibe, and Cause Cast are co-hosting a screening of Food, Inc., the new documentary by Robert Kenner. Food,...
The new White House Farmers' Market opened this morning. Michelle Obama had this to say: Farmers' markets are a simple but major ingredient in...
Starting tomorrow, you can reserve a plug-in Nissan Leaf with a $99 deposit. The car will cost you somewhere in the $20,000 to $25,000 range...
Think museums are musty repositories of history? Think again. Major metropolitan museums are becoming petri dishes of innovation. Take the...

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When a construction project stalled, a real estate company, a restaurant, and an environmental group built a temporary farm instead.

Data is more important than ever to businesses, citizens and policymakers, but the government's about to shut down a major data source.