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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
Take a thirty seconds for this explainer on the hot new idea for paying for social services—that let's private investors earn a profit too.
Seven top investors offer up tips for how social entrepreneurs can get their money: Don't drive a Mercedes. Do be a revolutionary.
“Not all entrepreneurs are kids in college dorms, eating Ramen noodles, working through the night.”
Your old t-shirts got shipped to Africa. Project Repat's local artisans recycle and remix them for resale, creating jobs and social impact.
Climate meddling by humans started a long time ago. Watch the human impact on the planet's land cover over the past 8,000 years.
Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson explain how everyone—even you!—can make the future of finance more ethical through impact investing.
"There are going to be inevitably all kinds of obstacles in one's path."
Twelve creatives. Four teams. Four weeks. One social problem. This is Yoxi, and it's launching its pilot program today. We thought it was a...
A new plan harnesses profit incentive to solve social problems. If it works, it could scale big enough to change government programs everywhere.
What if Farmville had a real-world impact? New game WeTopia will transform virtual trees into physical bark and leaves.
Reviews for the innovative video game have been over-the-top effusive. It's “a masterpiece” and “utterly perfect.” They’re not wrong.
We've learned about robots that spy, rescue, aid, survey, and defuse. In the final episode of our "Military Robots" series, we encounter robots...
Attention middle and high school students: You're going to want to go to this school!
Youtube user Brusspup spent weeks creating this grid of candles and recreating vintage video games with the flames. He describes it as "a lot of...
Jane McGonigal, the author of "Reality is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How They Can Change the World," has lofty goals for video games.
We've moved on from Nazi and Eastern Bloc bad guys, but what do the nationalities of today's first person shooter villains tell us about geopolitics?
Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: Learning by Playing A middle school teaches with video games. Can its approach transform...
Bioware stands by its decision to allow gay characters in its game.
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