- October 13, 2009 • 2:44 pm PDT
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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 Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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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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Moving to a new town can be pretty hard. But if, like Comet Skateboards, one of the founding principles of your company is community...
Last week we told you about these awesome new sidewalk shelters in New York City-a nice example of a city taking a creative approach to urban...
When Assata Richards moved into one of the newly renovated row houses in Houston's Third Ward in the winter of 1996, she knew her life had...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by a natural...
I will be honest, I am not sure exactly what all the items in this video represent (watch it after the jump). Suffice it to say, Twitter got...
This video, called "Everything is Everything" (after the jump) is "of random things happening for some reason." It is mesmerizing and...
A fun way to take stock of the last decade: ASME and MPA's "10 Years in 2 Minutes with 92 Magazine Covers" (video after the jump). We love...
This week has seen a lot of tragedy, which is part of the reason I'm so grateful for In Bb 2.0 (that's "B-flat" for non-musicians), one of the...
This excellent video (after the jump) compresses some of the most powerful cinematic moments of the aughts into 7 mesmerizing minutes. It has some...
I've never seen footage quite like what appears in this phenomenal architectural short film "The Third and the Seventh" (video after the jump),...
How would you react if deforestation was happening outside your window? That's the question behind Maya Lin's visually arresting short video...
There is an even easier way to help than by going to the Red Cross website. You can quickly give $10 to the Red Cross to help the disaster in...
When Wernor Herzog Reads Curious George (after the jump), "he" imbues the children's classic with hilarious existential depth, adding such lines...
Procrastination, Johnny Kelly's graduation project for his masters in animation at the Royal College of Art, is a fantastic short film (after the...
Ross Butter's wonderful animated short film "Dinosaur Ballet" (video after the jump) is simply perfect. The texture. The color. The teeth. I...
The in-an-out-of-consciousness stop-motion feel of "Drift" (video after the jump), which wanders through a hyper-real city, was created using a...
This video (after the jump) does a really nice job of making Japan seem like the future. Thanks, Will.
Creator Sam3 describes Nadadores (after the jump) as a "ceramic animation." The juxtaposition of water sounds with what looks like sand and clay...