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Education
Fifth-Year Senior: Why Making High School Longer Is a Brilliant Idea
Maine wants to accelerate the traditional secondary curriculum and bring introductory college courses down to high school.
Culture
Infographic: Life in the Year 2050
What do Americans think the world will be like in 40 years?
Lifestyle
Feeding the Tiny Humans of the Future: Amsterdam's Disproportionate Restaurant
A new restaurant explores the way genetically-engineered one-and-a-half foot tall humans might cook, eat, and farm.
Education
As if Your Life Depends on It
Our lives depend on improving our education and health. Why aren't we acting like it?
Lifestyle
Golden Rice and Glow-In-The-Dark Jello: Imagining the Future of Food Design
How should we make sure that our food is being redesigned for good, rather than just for profit?
Education
What Will Education Be Like in 100 Years?
An author from 1900 has a compelling vision for education that includes free universities and in-school medical care for all students.
Lifestyle
Year in Review 2010: 2011 Food Predictions
What can an outpouring of 2011 food trend predictions tell us about today, if not tomorrow?
Lifestyle
The Stove-Killer: Wireless Charging Techology Cooks Soup
The techies at this week's Consumer Electronics Show turn their attention to dinner.
Lifestyle
Future Foragers: Dunne & Raby Redesign Human Digestion to Redefine "Food"
British duo Dunne & Raby explain how they use design to start a conversation about the future of food.
Lifestyle
Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future
How to make your own genetically modified seed—and what might happen if you do.
Education
Slate's Classroom of the Future
The online magazine announces the winner of its contest to re-imagine where learning takes place.
Lifestyle
Salt Crystals, Stevia, and the SunChips Bag: An Interview with PepsiCo's Derek Yach
PepsiCo's Derek Yach discusses how his company is redesigning food at the molecular and the agricultural scale—and why.
The Community Board
It's a New Beginning...
They say you've got to hit bottom before you can turn it around and I believe that we have, as a nation, and that GOOD times are on the way....
Lifestyle
This Exemplary Embodiment: The Year in Food Patents
I think that patent applications—where human ingenuity meets dreams of profit, within the straitjacket of line diagrams and legal prose—might be...
The Community Board
How GOOD are you?
As designers we all want to make money, at times immense amounts of money. But, do we ever stop, look around us and think? What makes a good...
The Community Board
This is the future of Humankind
Humanism CapitalismIn capitalism the means of production are privately owned. The capitalist form of production has created the most efficient...
The Community Board
A 6 Year Olds Vision of the Future
Last night, a 6 year old friend read me her school speech on the future for her year 1 class. It really moved me so I thought I would share it...
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Medieval Soldiers and Modern Stunting
Jeremy Cherfas explores the relationship between the remarkable history of human stunting and the future of genetically engineered biofortified crops.
