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Intermission: Protest Big Banks with Their Own Junk Mail
Big banks have been sending you the means to protest their greed for years. You just never realized it.
Culture
Intermission: The Best Cellphone Movie You've Ever Seen
Shame on the people filming fights at fast-food restaurants with their cellphone cameras. They could have been doing this.
Design
Intermission: These Brilliant Embroidered Portraits Ain't Your Grandma's Needlepoint
Portraits from young artist Daniel Kornrumpf updates a stuffy old hobby.
Design
The Color of Change: Can Colorful Images Help Solve Social Problems?
The partnership between Pantone and design students assigned a color to each of eight social issues.
Cities
Intermission: Amazing Footage of San Francisco in 1905
Here's video of a trip down San Francisco's Market Street from 1905.It's remarkable how lawless the streets were. Vehicles and people and horses...
Education
Can We Teach Creative and Critical Thinking?
What are the elements of a lesson plan to teach students how to think creatively and critically? And how do we measure what they've learned?
Lifestyle
The No-Resolution Resolution: How to Really Be Happy in 2012
Five ideas that have helped me on my quest to be happier.
Culture
Intermission: Did van Gogh Paint the Chicago Sky Today?
Doom and gloom above Chicago makes for a rather beautiful sight. If the apocalypse looks like this, it might not be so bad.
Education
Why Is It So Hard To Put Imagination Back Into Schools?
A national "Imagination Summit" wants to help schools figure out how to bring creativity and innovation to the classroom. Is it really that difficult?
Education
What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
Our standardized approach to education has a siloed understanding of what it means to be creative. Here's what schools should be teaching instead.
Design
Intermission: The Best Picture from the Vancouver Hockey Riots
Make out, not war.
Culture
Intermission: Devastating Photos of the East Coast Earthquake
Yesterday's 5.9 tremor felt throughout the Eastern Seaboard certainly left a lot of lawn furniture in distress.
Education
A Case for Creative Rule-breaking
Kids crave firm, consistent rules. A teacher's perspective on how we might creatively enforce them.
Design
One Is Not Enough: Why Creative People Need Multiple Outlets
The most interesting, creative people I know express themselves in a variety of ways. I used to do it myself.
Education
Why Are Silicon Valley Executives Sending Their Kids to a Tech-Free School?
Parents employed by Google and Apple are sending their kids to computer-free Waldorf schools. Are they on the right track?
Culture
Intermission: Arguably the Greatest Nostalgic Photo Blog Yet
A new photo blog, Dear Photograph, lets you celebrate the old and the new without cheapening either.
Education
Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
Vittra Telefonplan takes away the formal classroom, desks, and chairs.
Education
How Do We Prepare Kids for Jobs We Can't Imagine Yet? Teach Imagination
Schools need to prep students to be successful in jobs we haven't even imagined yet, but we can't do it if we stick with industrial age teaching.
