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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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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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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
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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
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People Are Awesome: Politicians Slash Gas Prices for Needy Drivers
Bunnies are on the loose, and they like organic food. They are eating the soy-infused wiring in some parked cars causing a no-start situation.
In the developing world, nutrients aren't always in diets. Adding those nutrients to the available food can be a huge boost to public health.
We're pretty sure a PSA isn't going to help stop suicide bombing, but it never hurts to try, right? Especially if you throw a lot of special...
Alyssa Wright's Cherry Blossoms project is a sobering piece of mobile protest art.
A Los Angeles-based nonprofit is using the weapons of war to clean up battlefields.
It's like losing an old friend. Google has fixed their algorithim so that when one googles "miserable failure" the first result is no longer...
Listen to this first-hand account of an Iraqi Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad's attempt at defusing two suspected IEDS. They shoot at the...
Scientists are hard at work on efforts to create environmentally friendly bombs. At first it sounds like an oxymoron-at least that's what...
So, the U.S. military has recently introduced a new preemptive tactic in the war on terror: Giving cows to the widows of Iraqis we've killed....
When The Guardian got its hands on the 91,000 secret Afghanistan war documents released by WikiLeaks, it began using event logs to create a...
There is a very interesting op-ed in the Times today (complete with handy chart by our friend Rob Di Ieso, Jr.) about applying game theory to...
I love the idea of guerrilla gardening: subversively reclaiming the forgotten pockets of fertility in urban landscapes for the purposes of...
Two Los Angeles designers have come up with an innovative way to make seed bombing easy for everyone. They're retrofitting old candy...
The following animation by the artist Isao Hashimoto depicts every nuclear bomb explosion from 1945 to 1998. It's on the long side, but that's...
In this new series, we seek (nonbinding, fully disclaimed) legal opinions from practicing lawyer Kenny Ching on matters relating to the world of...
Article 22 salvages scrap metal from bombs dropped by American soldiers during the Vietnam War and transforms it into elegant peaceBOMB bracelets.
There would have been a big explosive fireball in the middle of crowded Times Square. Watch it.
A new study showed that the dogs can determine cancer 98 percent of the time.
When you’re bequeathed several vintage gumball machines, the gift comes with a mandate to do something creative. But what? That was the dilemma...
Clever citizens are repurposing phone booths, installing public furniture, and painting new bike lanes. It's DIY urban design, and it's taking off.
