- May 31, 2007 • 11:26 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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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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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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A look at the most frequently used words in two books, one by Ann Coulter and one by Al Franken.
The dictionary got some exciting new additions today. Google, as a verb, with a lower-case "G," got in there. It entered the dictionary only five...
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In Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, editors of storytelling magazine Smith have compiled the...
In response to President Bush's laughably disingenuous Politico interview, Keith Olbermann dishes out 12 minutes of reasoned vitriol. One can't...
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Two years of campaigning, dozens of debates, hundreds of millions of dollars spent on ads, and it all culminates today. So how do you feel? In one...
A new tool for computer language analysis can evaluate your mind based on your Tweets (and might help psychologists, too) Unless you've been...
There are so many different definitions of plagiarism-and so much written about it-that it can be hard to separate original writing from things...
Dissecting a symptom of our twisted tabloid culture Infatuated with the lives of the rich and famous? Then you're probably familiar with (or...
Time Magazine's photos of the year. In case you were in a hole all year, you can quickly glean that the world had problems in Iraq, Israel,...
Bush gave his speech on climate change yesterday, and the media yawned. There was nearly nothing written about it. Maybe that's because Bush's...
The Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Name Sales. An original GOOD Video..
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I've always found the practice of giving a death-sentenced person the opportunity to utter a series of "last words" to be profoundly (and...
Ten years of technology, terrorism, and truthiness. I don't know how blood tests work, and I don't want to: they ick me out. Still, I can imagine...
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The recently abandoned Republican efforts to distinguish between "rape" and "forcible rape" sheds light on the word's perceived shades of gray.
The English language is an imperfect instrument. Actually, it isn't really an instrument at all. English (like any language) is more like a...