Elizah Leigh
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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
When Jason Paul graduated from college, he tried to find a "conventional" job, but after sending out 180 applications, he remained jobless....
So you wake up one day, after a full night's sleep, and you're feeling good. You sip some coffee, you read the paper. Maybe a morning dove...
The principle behind Chekhov's Gun goes something like this: If there's a rifle in the first act, it better be fired by the third. The great...
Anyone who remembers childhood as a time of innocence and joy was never on the wrong side of a dodgeball. If you ever packed a few extra...
Certain personal attributes can be advantageous in particular sports. In basketball, height helps. For sprinting, fast twitch muscle fibers...
The Pew Research Center's report on the state of marriage in states across the country is full of fascinating information-such as the amusingly...
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...
I haven't tried one, but from the looks of it, this transparent drain with a mechanical de-clogging crank (no more toxic Drano) belongs in the...
Frustrated by the state of the world? Feeling powerless, but wish you could do something to help? There are numerous worthy non-profits, both...
This post is a response to "How Might We Zoom Out to Evaluating With a Systemic View?" Read more of the conversation here. Much of the work...
America has always been a religious country. But a recent study finds that might be changing; The percent of the country who considers...
Crap Caper: Chicago's illegal cache of human waste is tomorrow's gardening gold. In an undisclosed storage area in Chicago, Nance Klehm has a...
This is a continuing series on the devastation and reconstruction of Haiti. As the story fades from the front pages of newspapers and ...
This is not a new idea here, but it's been fairly revolutionary for me, so I thought I'd share: I emerged from this New Year's break with the...
Forget these Best of the Decade lists, the Onion has the biggest stories of the past 4.5 billion years, ranging from evolution ("going great,"...
This helpful chart (full version here) explains curling, the most confounding sport of the Winter Olympics. Basically it's shuffleboard with...
The steady disappearance of roadside rest stops-a sad chapter in American car culture I chronicled for GOOD last summer-now has would-be bathroom...
If you know you have cutting edge thoughts, but don't have to time to actually articulate them, you're in luck. FastPencil, a company that helps...
Want to get better acquainted with the Canon of Significant Cinema? Want to do it online? You're in luck: The Criterion Collection now has a...
We're getting a sequel to the Discovery Channel's BBC's breathtaking Planet Earth series. It's called Life, and its focus is more on animate...
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