Blair Callicott
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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
Here's a rare chance to make some money writing-and impress Elizabeth Kolbert: io9's environmental writing contest.
As election day nears, candidates need new, innovative ways of getting their message out to voters.Via Wonkette.
Debate time: Did human ancestors, known as austrolapiths, maintain short (adorably short) legs for 2 million years for tree climbing or for fighting?
National Geographic reports that Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda are coming together in a rare instance of cooperation to...
Problem: Gorillas might attack you if you look them in the eye. Solution: these stylish glasses. After a woman was attacked by an escaped gorilla...
We'd like to congratulate NASA on landing the Phoenix Mars Lander. Unlike the rovers, which land on the Martian surface fairly slowly, the Phoenix...
Back in March Cliff Kuang wrote about the Mars 500, a simulator that will put a crew of six men in a small ship replica in a warehouse on the...
No, we're not talking about how a gigantic meteor crashing into the planet Mars billions of years ago has finally illuminated for the scientific...
You might be familiar with Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey, a robot whose sentient actions made life a little dicey for Hal's astronaut...
As you might have heard, Spirit, the Mars rover, got stuck. A 7-year-old kid named Julian suggested a way to get it unstuck, and the drivers were...
Driving around the block over and over to find a free parking spot wastes everything: time, gas, space on city streets, patience. It would be...
Anyone whose seen photographs of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch knows how gross our oceans are getting. (And anyone who read Andrew's post...
"It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language," writes...
We've talked about Spot.us before on this site. In fact, just over a year ago, we highlighted it as a peek into the future of journalism. Whether...
In what seems to be a first for any major American city, San Francisco just counted every parking spot within its borders. The total:...
Now would be a great time to improve public transportation in our cities. It's a clean, efficient, and cheap, and people are looking for...
Where would Americans be without sugar? Fair Trade labeling sweetens the opportunity for sustainability and better working conditions for workers.
It's no substitute for honest debate, but understanding the motives behind disingenuous ads will make you a better citizen.
