Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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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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The 'Homeless Man with a Golden Voice' Gets a Third Chance
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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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GOOD Citizenship Task 10: Contact a Local Elected Leader on an Issue of Interest to You #30DaysofGOOD
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
The consumer price index, how much the average American pays for goods and services, is one of the most important economic statistics in America....
The Economist just published its report on global Big Mac prices. What is it supposed to teach us? In the complex world of exchange rates, one...
Happy Planet Index (2006 data) - Green is Highest Rating, Brown is Lowest. How should we evaluate the success of our economy? The primary...
The African cell-phone mogul Mo Ibrahim pinpointed a simple fact about African leaders: Many of them use their power to enrich themselves...
Price of Weed is a new site that aims to crowdsource the street value of marijuana. Users (double meaning!) can anonymously submit information...
Wal-Mart's plans for a "Sustainability Index," a rating system that will assess its suppliers on their energy efficiency, responsible use of...
On Thursday, Wal-Mart is going to announce its new effort to create a comprehensive "sustainability index" for every product it sells. The plan is...
Reporters Without Borders just released its 2009 Press Freedom Index, a ranking of countries based on how shamelessly they screw with the Fourth...
A collaboration of the New Orleans-based artists Nessim Higson, Daymon Gardner, and Anthony Vachris, the forthcoming Alphabet Book is a snapshot...
Singer Keith Urban, who might be better known as Mr. Nichole Kidman (we're told he has fans, we just haven't met one yet), is suing another Keith...
A new study that confirms our cultural stereotypes about city and country dwellers raises more questions than it answers.
According to the highly scientific "Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh Global Warming Truth Index," global warming is quite certainly a hoax.
How is your yearly raise, if you are lucky enough to get one, calculated? It has to do with the price of bagged non-organic salad.
Marc and Sara Schiller collect the writing on the wall. PLUS: GOOD Video Feature
Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare,...
The street art of Joshua Callaghan masks unsightly utility boxes by covering them with digital prints of what you would see if the utility boxes...
Certain personal attributes can be advantageous in particular sports. In basketball, height helps. For sprinting, fast twitch muscle fibers...
Photo by Steve Duncan At any hour of day or night, urban explorers risk their safety (and their criminal records) to plow though subways,...
Urbanist Yuri Artibise loves urban infographics. So do we. Here's our mutual love fest.
Two related articles caught my eye recently. Yesterday the BBC reported that light reflected off of city skyscrapers disrupts the behavior of...
