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• Culture

  

  But Who Is Google's Person of the Year?

  Time got its say on the man of the hour, but whom the world is actually talking about is quite a bit different.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Design

  

  Swedish Treehouse Hotel Imitates Shapes Both Real and Imagined

  A new hotel in Sweden is at one with the forest

  by Zak Stone +

• Culture

  

  The Ghosts of Christmas Trees Past: Seven Sidewalk Disposal Styles

  Will Etling takes us on a visual tour of the funniest, saddest, and most inventive methods of Christmas tree disposal on Southland sidewalks.

  by Patrick James, Will Etling +

• Culture

  

  These Attractive Sneakers Become Trees When You're Done with Them

  Dutch shoe company OAT Shoes' new sneakers biodegrade and become trees when you throw them out. Say hello to fashion's future.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• 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 +

• Lifestyle

  

  Feast Your Eyes: Family Tree of Wine Grapes

  And it looks pretty incestuous. What that means for the future of Merlot and biotechnology's role in breeding better vines.

  by Peter Smith +

• Environment

  

  Google Reduces Carbon Use So We Don't Have to Reduce Google Use

  No one’s arguing that we should cut back on internet searches, in part because Google doing a good job decreasing its data centers' energy use.

  by Sarah Laskow

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• 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 +

• Design

  

  Genius Design Innovation: The Melt Tag Saves Trees and Your Skin

  Simple but brilliant clothing tags are made of detergent paper, so they dissolve right in the washing machine.

  by Elisa Huang +

• Environment

  

  Tracking the Language of the Environment

  A cool new Google tools shows us how the language of environmental issues evolved over time.

  by Ben Jervey +

• 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 +

• News

  

  Putting Amtrak Back On Track

  Last summer, as gas prices seemed like they would never stop rising, there was a trumpeting of statistics that people were saving money by taking...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Environment

  

  Results from MIT's Trash Tracking Experiment

  Back in July, researchers at MIT's SENSEable City lab launched an experiment: They'd tag thousands of pieces of trash in New York and Seattle...

  by Andrew Price +

• Business

  

  Planet Money Tracks a Toxic Asset

  The excellent Planet Money team (who we honored in the GOOD 100) is continuing its coverage of our economic troubles by tracking the performance...

  by Andrew Price +

• Technology

  

  Track Your Local Smart Grid Projects

  If you’ve heard the term "smart grid" but aren’t sure what it means or how it pertains to you, a new website will help bring you up to speed on...

  by Mother Nature Network +

• Technology

  

  Mappiness: Tracking Happiness in the Urban Environment

  Want to find the key to happiness? There's an app for that. It's called Mappiness. Two researchers at the London School of Economics's...

  by Andrew Price +

• Education

  

  Should Schools Track Truant Kids By GPS?

  If Ferris Bueller was a modern student living in Anaheim, California, Principal Rooney could just track him down by GPS.

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Technology

  

  How To Stop Websites from Tracking You

  A step-by-step guide for keeping your clicks to yourself.

  by Ann Friedman +

• Culture

  

  Image of the Day: Austrian Street Becomes a Race Track

  Ochoresotto captures images of Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller's installation that places brilliant red turf paint on an Austrian street.

  by Patrick James +

• Lifestyle

  

  FDA Fast Tracks Brain-Controlled Prosthetic Arm

  The FDA and DARPA have created a faster approval process for breakthrough medical technology. First up: a high-tech prosthetic arm.

  by Ann Marie Gardner +