- August 18, 2006 • 8:39 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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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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One thing you can say about Communist countries, they have sweet propaganda posters. Go two or three slides in on this slideshow about North...
Here is a found-video addition to our video series on North Korea, in conjunction with our GOOD Guide to the country: Take a ride on a North...
Kim Jong Il is such a junkie for Hollywood (his rumored favorites: James Bond, Daffy Duck, and slasher movies) that not even his own paranoia and...

A quick guide to the democratic movements across the region.
We've written both about renegade bike-lane painters, who put bike lanes where cities won't, and about issues that New York's Hasidic Jewish...
Apparently antisemitic violence has become an issue in Amsterdam. Here's one attempt by city officials to curb the intolerant behavior: Acting...

Will the unrest in the Arab world put massive solar projects like Desertec on hold or actually usher in a new era of clean energy?

Is this the beginning of the end for Syria's dictatorship?
The internet just got a little less Anglo-normative: Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no...

The Wikileaks documents show Arab leaders' true feelings about Iran. How will the Arab press cover it, and how will the Arab street react?
GOOD Guide to North Korea, a North Korean Civics Lesson
If you possibly needed further proof that the United States is most certainly not the United Kingdom, news this week that British schoolchildren...

It's no coincidence that the countries that are feeling the first effects of peak oil are also the ones going through revolutions.

An Arab woman sends an ambivalent love note to her home on Valentine's Day: "I love my country, but my country is not mine."

Gallup polling has put together a composite of what America's happiest man probably looks like.
Wal-Mart has almost taken over the eastern part of the United States. Every dot represents a Wal-Mart. There must be places where Wal-Marts are...
Wal-Mart has announced that they'll be drastically expanding their organic offerings. Organic products will only cost 10% more than their...
We like to talk a lot of trash about Wal-Mart, because it's a pretty easy big box straw man to knock over. But maybe we're wrong. We're not going...
You can destroy the environment on your own time, but you are sure as hell not going to use Wal-Mart as an excuse. The store is pushing CFLs hard,...
This diverting quiz tests your ability to distinguish the work of modern artist Donald Judd from Wal-Mart dorm furniture. We got 75%. Anyone out...