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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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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?
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.
Culture
Intermission: Hey You! What Are You Listening To?
A guy walks the streets of New York asking pedestrians with headphones what they're listening to. Enjoy the awesome video he made.
Culture
Intermission: A Man's Last Minutes With His Best Friend
A touching six-minute film about a man's best friend.
Lifestyle
Intermission: Watch a 1950s Housewife Drop Acid
A demure young suburban housewife volunteers to take LSD for a study. Hilarity and rainbows ensue.
Education
What Does the School of Your Dreams Look Like?
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson shared his vision with some California teens.
