Patrick James
I love Pink Tentacle's video and photographs of snow sculptures (like this handsome ice-Gundam) from Sapporo Snow Festival 2010. Absolutely marvelous.
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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
As we slowly get back into gear after another raucous Fourth of July, we still have nine and a half weeks until Labor Day, the next holiday...
Jag Bhalla collects the world's odd idioms and out-dated metaphors. When describing you to prospective dates and employers, do friends say you...
Richards Powers wrote his new novel by dictation. Does that affect the quality? Richard Powers' new novel, Generosity, was published this week....
Ten years of trucker hats, bad TV, and social media. It's been a colorful decade in culture. Green became the new black, black became the new...
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...
Show City The city could be a theater. Every citizen could be a writer, an actor, a director, and a stage-hand. Cities would match up those with...
This time-lapse video condenses the long, cold process of pulling US Airways Flight 1549 from the Hudson into 5 minutes. Complete with...
nEven in these tough economic times, Americans are still taking the time to volunteer in their communities. See where inside.
According to new research from psychologists at Florida State University, praying works. Not at getting God to do stuff (that's hard to test) but...
This helpful chart (full version here) explains curling, the most confounding sport of the Winter Olympics. Basically it's shuffleboard with...
The Great American Apparel Diet (nothing to do with the American Apparel the apparel company) is "a group of women and two men who have decided to...
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...
Here, from Floating Sheep, is a map showing where different kinds of Christianity predominate in the United States. If you're a little unclear...
Nina Maria Kleivan, a Danish-Norwegian artist, has a photo series called "Potency" in which she dresses her baby up as various infamous...
The war on drugs keeps law enforcement busy-13 percent of all arrests made in 2007 were drug related-but the kinds of battles police are...
How words drift toward the famous, regardless of the facts. That Mark Twain was something else, wasn't he? He said so many memorable things,...
Forty-four years in the making: the world's first historical thesaurus. Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or...
Is the combination question mark and exclamation point a sign of the times? On Monday I discovered the interrobang, and I have been thinking...
Confusing parenthood and pet ownership: The words of the dog world. Kids chase fewer squirrels and postal workers than dogs, but the way we...
So in Maine yesterday, the voters reversed the state's law allowing gay marriage by a margin of 47-53. This is unfortunate news, especially on the...
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