- August 18, 2008 • 8:34 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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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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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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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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We need your help: What is the most awesome, best tasting, sustainably brewed, independently owned, community-oriented craft beer in your state?

John Wesley Powell thought our western borders should be shaped by watersheds. A 130-year-old map shows how the West would have looked.

Rhode Island and coffee milk, Idaho and potatoes. A map of all the states and their most relevant food items.
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While Google attempts to blanket San Francisco with WiFi, Rhode Island says: "Screw a city, we'll do the whole gosh darn state." Smallest state,...
Hasan Elahi isn't a terrorist‚ and he can prove it.
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As we head into the last year of the two thousand aughts, we take a look at some of the numbers that shaped our lives this past year. Thanks...
President Bush will give his State of the Union speech tonight at 9pm EST. Here is what he's up against. This past Saturday was the...
During President Bush's seventh and final State of the Union address, the message was less captivating (as we suppose is often the case) than the...
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The country's top 10 small-batch coffee companies are brewing blends that do more than wake you up. You might feel like you're living in a...
Peter Warden looked at 210 million Facebook profiles and found that the nation breaks down into a few (somewhat) distinct regional cliques....

This (full version here) is what you get when you let Google's autocomplete make phrases based on the names of the states. Montana... Fishburne?

Why does plaid never go out of style?
Coming late to the game, the State Department started an official blog yesterday and sarcastic potshots spread in the comments like a thousand...
Here are some of the friendly, cyborg-esque riot squad folks forming up before taking on some protesters (in this case, those protesters seemed to...
BLDG BLOG has published a remarkable series of images from Saddam Hussein's crumbling palaces. Many of these buildings were shoddily constructed...
As we move towards an electricity grid made up of renewable energy, it's a good idea to see from where that energy is going to come. Some...
Only the ACLU would think of this: They have banded with parents and student of Palm Beach County and mounted a trailblazing class-action lawsuit,...
