Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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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
Jag Bhalla collects the world's odd idioms and out-dated metaphors. When describing you to prospective dates and employers, do friends say you...
John Lennon said a lot of great things: "I am the Walrus," "All you need is love," and "The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the...
As we slowly get back into gear after another raucous Fourth of July, we still have nine and a half weeks until Labor Day, the next holiday...
Richards Powers wrote his new novel by dictation. Does that affect the quality? Richard Powers' new novel, Generosity, was published this week....
Show City The city could be a theater. Every citizen could be a writer, an actor, a director, and a stage-hand. Cities would match up those with...
This time-lapse video condenses the long, cold process of pulling US Airways Flight 1549 from the Hudson into 5 minutes. Complete with...
nEven in these tough economic times, Americans are still taking the time to volunteer in their communities. See where inside.
According to new research from psychologists at Florida State University, praying works. Not at getting God to do stuff (that's hard to test) but...
This helpful chart (full version here) explains curling, the most confounding sport of the Winter Olympics. Basically it's shuffleboard with...
The Great American Apparel Diet (nothing to do with the American Apparel the apparel company) is "a group of women and two men who have decided to...
And here's another nice film project. Eight Billion Lives is an online platform for documentary films that focus on the world's non-famous...
Here, from Floating Sheep, is a map showing where different kinds of Christianity predominate in the United States. If you're a little unclear...
Nina Maria Kleivan, a Danish-Norwegian artist, has a photo series called "Potency" in which she dresses her baby up as various infamous...
A new art project reveals the criminals behind our food. On March 12, 1942, Donald Smith, a cook in Iowa, was arrested on charges of disorderly...
This fun little web application called My City vs. Your City lets you compare the music that's popular in different cities. It's all based on data...
Bill Watterson, the creator of "Calvin and Hobbes," gave his first interview since 1989 on Monday. Here's Watterson on creating the strip: I just...
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,"...
We've been thoroughly enjoying "Hollywood Teaches Geography," Joe Sabia's most recent feat of editing madness (video after the jump). Sabia has...
The war on drugs keeps law enforcement busy-13 percent of all arrests made in 2007 were drug related-but the kinds of battles police are...
How words drift toward the famous, regardless of the facts. That Mark Twain was something else, wasn't he? He said so many memorable things,...
