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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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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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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
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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People Are Awesome: Politicians Slash Gas Prices for Needy Drivers
A two-minute video of kids talking climate might well be the best environmental year in review for 2010.
Macho Man Randy Savage is dead, and so is a big part of my childhood.
A scary new study confirms the motivations behind North Americans' willful ignorance.
Forget her non-black dress, or the fact that her hard hat doesn't match her shoes. Can a doll really change the way girls think about their future?
The data is in and last year donations to America's biggest charities dropped by 11 percent, four times worse than after September 11.
CEOs from major corporations (GE and Du Pont, among others) want congress to reduce greenhouse emissions by 80 percent as of 2050. But will this...
"Today's 20-somethings have built lives around friendships instead of creating new nuclear families."
Hey Bic corporate headquarters. What's up? Just checking in to see what you've been up to, other than not reading the news, since obviously you've...
In any field, designers have to synthesize competing interests to come to an elegant solution. Imagine what they could do to...
A guide to foraging for your own food without killing something endangered-or yourself. Small, tart wild-blueberries plucked straight from the...
Intentional communities are enjoying a modest rebirth, as escapes from consumer capitalism in modern utopias at a livable scale.
Previous post aside, apparently, there is some concern amongst those industries that produce carbon dioxide that, perhaps, the latest outrage...
For those of you who take the well-padded elbow-bashing of blockers, pivots, and jammers as your collective creative muse, the literary magazine...
The Senate will be voting on the stimulus package sometime later today. Will the Republicans filibuster (which the Democrats can't stop)? Will the...
Writing in The Economist's "World in 2010" issue, pop star Shakira pleads with the world's leaders to establish a "Global Fund for Education" in...
Why we have a responsibility to choose intentionally, and move from consumerism to userism. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power...
After China and Google's recent squabble, Hillary Clinton gave a rather nice speech saying that internet censorship is a human rights problem, and...
A former grade-school teacher reflects on his Teach for America days. For years, I have been haunted by the fate of Jacqueline Barnes, my best...
The resourceful mycologist (that's a fungi-studier) Paul Stamets has made cardboard packaging that can be planted and will grow into trees. It's...
A light that simulates natural outdoor light can help you wake up feeling better.
