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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Countries with lots of forest stand to benefit from the lucrative timber trade, but at what cost to their ecological footprint?

The violence has primarily been perpetrated by seven drug cartels, all of which are vying for territory and power. This is who they are.

In the past five years, New Orleans has seen a massive demographic shuffle. Many people left, some came back, and other people arrived for the...

New Yorker Denise Vega opened her home to the activists who projected OWS images onto the Verizon building last Thursday.
So, Kerry is out. Is Al in? Rolling Stone is asking..
Letting go of the impulse to be an expert Last year I decided I was going to teach myself about Duke Ellington. Great idea, right? We all know...
People are moving around the world constantly-either toward opportunity or away from misfortune and fear. This is where people are going, and...
A look at where people around the world are directing some of their purchasing power. View Who's Buying What?
A look at how countries rank in math and science test scores. (Average score of a 15-year-old student on science and math literacy tests,...
Medical advances have left much of the developed world free of many diseases that still afflict the developing world, despite the existence of...
These people will shape transportation policy during the next four years. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Ray LaHood Secretary of...

Most people thought our dog agreement was unusual. My therapist told me I was replicating the joint custody my parents had of me after their divorce.
There was a great debate last night on NPR's Talk of the Nation: should preachers be able to endorse a candidate in an election? Technically,...
It's not you, relatively speaking, unless you're managing a hedge fund.New data show that even the CEOs in the S&P 500 are getting squeezed out of...
Technology connects us more and more each day. Who are the most and least connected people in the world? View Who's Connected How?
Many Americans traveled abroad this holiday season, availing themselves of their United States passport to gain entry into foreign countries. GOOD...
The Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune are bankrupt. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is looking for a buyer. Rumors are swirling around...
Gallup has released the results of a new global "wellbeing survey" and it confirms what we already know: There's a lot disparity in how...
With the news that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is going to retire during Obama's presidency (and possibly quite soon) has come the...

