The Year in Google Searches

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• Environment

  

  Searching for Water in an Untapped Source: the Air

  The Airdrop is a low-tech fix to a serious problem: growing food during a drought.

  by Zak Stone

• Lifestyle

  

  Americans Spend More in the Search for Happiness—And It's Not Working

  “We end up after the recession at a higher spending rate than we were at previously because we feel like we have to make up for lost time.”

  by Jillian Anthony

• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food Stories

  Ten food stories you should read this year (or next year).

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Clean Energy

  It was a record year for solar power, but we also had the Deepwater Horizon spill. A look back at the major events in energy in 2010.

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  Young, Educated, and Unemployed: A New Generation of Kids Search for Work in their 20s

  What it's like for 20-somethings to go in search of meaningful work-and not find it.

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks

• Business

  

  Earthquake in Japan: Help Google and Ushahidi Rescue Trapped Citizens and Reunite Families

  Here's how you can help find missing people, or let the world know someone is safe through Google and Ushahidi's crisis maps.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Technology

  

  Google Throws What's Probably the World's Biggest Science Fair

  Google is looking to discover the best young scientists in the world, and is throwing a big global science fair to find them.

  by Ben Jervey

• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food

  From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.

  by Peter Smith

• Technology

  

  Google Software to Wipe Deforestation Off the Google Map

  Google.org has unleashed new software to track and monitor deforestation, using past, present, and future satellite models to show the changes in...

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  Is Google+ a Sausage Party? Google Says No Way

  A statistic is floating around that 88 percent of Google+ users are male. Google says it's a lie.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• Education

  

  Mind the Gap Year: Global Citizen Year Turns 18-Year-Olds into Future Leaders

  Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

  by Zak Stone

• Lifestyle

  

  Watch Your Mouth: Four Loko and the Search for a Safe Caffeinated Booze

  What coca-infused wine and a hyper-charged drinking culture can tell us about today's booze-with-a buzz craze.

  by Peter Smith

• Technology

  

  Why Google Should Stay in China

  Leaving China to domestic internet companies won't advance the cause of free information. In mid-December, Google suffered a "…sophisticated...

  by John Wagner Givens

• Environment

  

  Climate Tours in Google Earth

  Who needs Cancun? You can learn more about the climate impacts and solutions sitting at your desk playing with Google Earth.

  by Ben Jervey

• News

  

  In Which Google Latitude Inspires Panic Over a Refugee

  Here's a problem I bet nobody had when they were trying to spring their friend from a refugee camp 20 years ago: suddenly discovering that he was...

  by Brian Merchant

• News

  

  Video of Google's Computer-driven Car in Action

  Here is a video of one of the cars in action, though you sadly can't see the man in the drivers seat not touching the steering wheel.

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Environment

  

  Vote Now in the Great Google Science Fair

  The Google Global Science Fair finalists have been announced. Vote to see who gets $10,000.

  by Ben Jervey

• Business

  

  Google Bots Take the Wheel in Nevada—After Hitting the DMV

  A milestone in future studies: Robotic cars get a license in the Silver State.

  by Tim Fernholz

• Culture

  

  Generification: When "Google" Becomes "google"

  How tweeting, googling, and McJobs have changed the way we use branded words. When the American Dialect Society met in Baltimore in early...

  by Mark Peters

• Environment

  

  More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico

  From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

  by Patrick James