- December 26, 2009 • 10:25 pm PST
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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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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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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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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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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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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The war-era food wheel shows just how dramatically the government's approach to food guidelines has changed.

Driverless cars and autopilots make driving more efficient and therefore more environmentally friendly.

Lasers, 3D printers, and computers: This isn't your grandmother's pottery class.

Metropolis II, is an elaborate interconnected system of tracks for some 1,200 Hot Wheels cars. The noise is impressive.

Why yearn for a gas-guzzling sports car when you can aspire to own an all-electric BMW scooter or a Prius-inspired bike you can shift with your mind?

Mark Malkoff, "amateur daredevil" and "comedian," decided to race a New York City bus on a Big Wheel bike for a mile down 42nd street.

The world's 567,000 mayors should be poaching each other's good ideas, not reinventing the wheel.

Mark Kurlansky's newest book, the illustrated World Without Fish, is a grim primer on the destruction of the ocean ecosystem.

Celebrities go silent on Twitter and Facebook for World Aids Day. The only way to get Lady Gaga tweeting again is to fork over money for the cause.

Google is looking to discover the best young scientists in the world, and is throwing a big global science fair to find them.

What's the connection between world nutrition and globesity? Take a look at these maps.

Thousands of somewhat athletic Harry Potter fans donned silly outfits and custom brooms to participate in the real life Quidditch World Cup.

A global look at one of the world's most widely taken drugs.

The Antikythera mechanism, built around 150 B.C, has been recreated out of Lego, along with a cool (Lego) video showing how the ancient relic worked.
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