Johnpaul McLean
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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 'Homeless Man with a Golden Voice' Gets a Third Chance
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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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GOOD Citizenship Task 10: Contact a Local Elected Leader on an Issue of Interest to You #30DaysofGOOD
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
Nearly half a million women are married to men in prison. Maintaining these relationships involves a constant struggle with an often...
New York City gives away 5 million free condoms after redesigning their packaging.
National Geographic reports that Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda are coming together in a rare instance of cooperation to...
Hello, New York. What are you doing this Sunday? That's right. You're heading over to Solar 1 at the East River Waterfront to celebrate...
In The Magnetic Fields' song "A Pretty Girl," Stephin Merritt sings, "I'm so in love with you girl, it's like I'm on the moon / I can't really...
Heart Robot, a creepy Gollum-esque metal-and-circuit infant, is part of a new field of development in robotic science... the emotibot: robots with...
Every five-to-seven minutes in India, a woman dies in labor. Almost every one of these deaths-roughly 500,000 a year worldwide-is preventable....
The folks at Big Think have put together a great series of videos for Valentine's Day on the concept of love. You can watch Stephen Fry discuss...
We're not writing about the European Graduate School's Slavoj Zizek because of his stature as one of the world's most highly regarded contemporary...
Billions of people lack access to sanitation and clean drinking water. Three innovative ideas could solve that problem. When it comes to global...
Are you looking to gain new work experience in an exciting, dynamic world (not Narnia)? Do you wish you were standing or sitting where one of...
Do you ever get the feeling that some world leaders and captains of industry are simply suffering from an empathy deficit? Majora Carter, the...
The Pew Research Center's report on the state of marriage in states across the country is full of fascinating information-such as the amusingly...
I met with a high school teacher last night who had just received a text message from one of his students. It read: "I came up with this idea...
You're probably aware of the fact that there's a big parliamentary election taking place today in the U.K. Education reform is a hot issue...
This is "Love & Theft" by the German director Andreas Hykade. It takes a while to get going, but by minute 2 it's pretty cool and by minute 4,...
Teachers get some love via a campaign started by the social network Mudpies and Butterflies, which connects families to school administrators.
If you're in New York, please join us on Sunday for a celebration of Loving Day. For those of you not up on your Supreme Court history, Loving v....
Last week we jaw-dropped our way through Ford's massive second quarter loss of $8.7 billion. Yesterday, we were even more blown away by Exxon's...
The musical misunderstandings called mondegreens As an English teacher and language columnist, I know as well as anyone that the world is full...
