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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
Maria "Brainpicker" Popova saw our post The 10 Best Talks from TED 2010 and wondered aloud on Twitter if we maybe missed a few highlights (and...
There are a few representatives from GOOD up at the TED conference. If you're unfamiliar, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) describes...
Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in history and seven-time convicted felon, lost his bid for reelection in...
Remember Ted Stevens? He's the senator from Alaska who's famous for describing the internet as "a series of tubes" and wearing Incredible Hulk...
Every year, the organization known simply as TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) awards three "exceptional individuals" with...
Garage Talk The lauded nonprofit TED's "Ideas Worth Spreading" series is truly inspirational. Through its legendary talks and annual...
Our friend Jonathan Greenblatt is at the TED conference, absorbing the wisdom of the illuminati. This is his second dispatch (we added some links,...
The Seed Vault, which is keeping copies of every seed in the world in a secure vault in the Arctic Circle, is a source of endless fascination. We...
GOOD contributor Parag Khanna spoke recently at TED about how political maps cannot possibly contain the movement of the people, goods, and ideas...
Ashton Kutcher's less-than-memorable "Butterfly Effect" examines (with time travel, natch) the common chaos theory example that if a butterfly...
One click can't change the world, but perhaps a few million could. Check out Ripple.org--a new site that wants you to be part of the solution to...
The winners of the 2008 TED Prize were announced last week. They're physicist Neil Turok, religious historian Karen Armstrong, and author and...
Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall The TED Conference has long been a beacon of positive change. Since 1984, the annual gathering in...
Ted Haggard's journey hasn't been easy, but he's slowly making his way back into our good graces. You should give the guy a break, too.
TEDActive, the action-oriented arm of the renowned conference-turned-movement, wants to catalyze a student-led education reform revolution.
Since 1961 the world's total meat supply has quadrupled from 71 million tons to 284 tons, and per capita consumption has more than doubled-rising...
A great battle for the power of the internet is being waged by autocrats and democractic movements. One company is trying to sway the balance.
Marcin Jakubowski is trying to create robust, modular versions of the 50 machines that every modern community needs.
A new AIDS vaccine being tested in Thailand turns out to be 31.2 percent effective. This is the first time a vaccine has worked at all. It's not...
A commonly accepted milestone in literacy is the threshold between the end of third grade and the beginning of fourth: That's when children...
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