Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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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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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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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Make it by Monday: A DIY Valentine's Day
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
Others, smoke monsters, frozen donkey wheels and other prime-time words.Lost is a show that piles WTF upon WTF. Absorbing to many, maddening to...
A cool new Google tools shows us how the language of environmental issues evolved over time.
John Lennon said a lot of great things: "I am the Walrus," "All you need is love," and "The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the...
According to someone who goes by the moniker Dr. Goodword (and also, apparently, Dr. Language, depending on which of his websites you are...
UNESCO just released an interactive map of the world's endangered languages. Currently there are 2,500 of them. India and Brazil have almost 200...
Yes, you can translate a language you don't know.
Take a look at these cross-cultural learning opportunities and resources that are helping people build new communication skills one word at a time.
Will learning from a native speaking Chinese teacher turn American students into subversive commies? Probably not. (But it might get them a job.)
A new crowdsourced video by the directors of "Words" explores the complexity of our language.
LiveAndTell's model of crowdsourcing Native American tongues could save indigenous languages from extinction.
From our winter issue, GOOD 025: The Next Big Thing
Only 13 percent of Latinos have a bachelor's degree. Bilingual college programs may the answer.
Paul Schmelzer is one innovative autograph hound. Rather than collecting a list of scribbled celebrity monikers, he requests that celebrities sign...
Marking the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq, street protests broke out yet again across the country, complete with the usual "The Bush Regime...
While we've never said that bicycles cars, we do believe that they should at least have space on our roads. To that end, we were excited to see a...
Ironic protest signs. So hot this year. Ranging from the insipid to the probably Photoshopped, Buzzfeed's list of 2009's 50 greatest protest signs...
Have you noticed those signs—they usually appear along the freeway—indicating that some infrastructure repair or upgrade has been paid for by the...
In our fourth graphic statement, Darius and Downey explore alternative signage
If you had a vigilant liberal in your life during the past eight years, you probably heard about Bush's "signing statements." These were, in...
The inventor Gary Lauder unveiled this new idea at the TED conference: A traffic sign that instructs drivers to "take turns" at an intersection....
