- May 7, 2009 • 5:53 pm PDT
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Swine flu has surprised the United Kingdom with 10 deaths in six weeks.
Today, Harper's takes a look back at the swine flu hysteria that dominated the week of April 27th: "Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby...
The World Health Organization bumped their global pandemic alert level up to "Phase 4" in response to the current swine flu situation. It's a...

American pig farms basically act like "flu factories," says an article in Scientific American. It's another unintended consequence of cheap meat.
I seem to be hearing stories both about how dangerous the H1N1 flu can be (even for young, previously healthy people) and about how many people...

British scientists have produced genetically modified chickens that can stop bird flu spreading within poultry flocks and therefore to humans.

Controversy heats up around the vaccine. Is there reason to be concerned?

Big Brother is taking your temperature.
