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Cities
This Is Why We're Hot: Sun-Absorbing Black Roofs Need a Coat of White Paint
This heatwave would suck less if all our roofs were painted white.
Cities
Kickstarting Urban Renewal with an Underground Park
An underground park in Manhattan is turning to Kickstarter to build the public support it needs to make the pipe dream a reality.
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?
Environment
How Hard Is It to Close a Nuclear Plant?
In New York State, the possible closure of just one nuclear plant shows how complicated shutting one of these monsters down can be.
Cities
Spare Change for Social Change: Can Wasted Subway Fees Be Used for Public Good?
New York subway riders throw out $52 million worth of rides each year. Can MetroChange harvest that value back into the community?
News
Video: Protesting Bike Lane Tickets with Jackass-Style Civil Disobedience
This guy gets a ticket for not riding in a NYC bike lane. Then, to protest, he crashes his bike full on into anything and everything in a bike lane.
News
The Good (City) Life: Why New York's Life Expectancy Is the Highest in the Nation
As the age of death rises in New York City, the "urban health penalty" myth is dying.
Education
Why America's Education System Is Like Apartheid
A new report reveals just how deep the education disparities in New York City really are.
Education
Irish Students Design Software to Make Drivers Safer
More than 3,000 people die every day because of traffic accidents, and that number is on the rise. The problem's so bad that the World Health...
Environment
Water, Water Everywhere: New York City’s Plague and Sustainer
They put so many things in the water. And we put the water in ourselves, on ourselves.
Education
Students Design a Smartphone App That Diagnoses Malaria
These grad students designed Lifelens, an app that lets you snap picture of a blood sample to determine if it's infected with malaria.
Education
Literacy as a Weapon: A Radical Approach To Teaching That Put Bronx Teens on the College Track
The Power Writers program teaches, "If you don’t learn to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you."
Cities
Slideshow: Aftermath Photos Prove Irene Was No Laughing Matter
The storm was weaker than expected, but with more than a dozen people dead and flooding everywhere, it was more serious than you think.
Education
Collaborative Effort Targets STEM Teacher Shortage
100Kin10 needs all hands on deck to bring 100,000 excellent STEM teachers into classrooms over the next decade.
Education
Ed Tech: One of These Ideas Might Be the Next Big Thing to Make Learning Easier
Here are five smart business ideas that use technology to solve education challenges.
Culture
Say 300,000 Gay Men Disappeared, Nearly All at Once
On trying to remember the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Education
Formerly Homeless Student Starts Nonprofit to Help His Peers Get to College
19-year-old student Orayne Williams got his first home when he went to college. Now he's working to get other homeless teens there, too.
Culture
Check Out Brooklyn's Fresh New Shipping Container Radio Station
BBox is Brooklyn's upstart community radio station coming direct from a farmers' market. They're looking for fresh DJs and hosts.
