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Peter Gabriel wrote an emotional tribute to Kanzi, the bonobo ape with whom he shared a musical bond.

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Peter Gabriel shares poignant tribute to Kanzi, the late ape he helped explore music

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Meet the Video Game School of the Future

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Best Hate Mail Ever: The Chinese Hate Poem

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The Amazing Adventures of the Traveling Advice Booth

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Where Does the Internet Come From?

Last year, important internet cables connecting Europe to Asia were mysteriously severed, resulting in days of outages for millions of internet users. It was a stark reminder that, no matter how instantaneously our information seems to travel, it is, in fact, moving through cables on the bottom of the..

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If we drew state lines based on cell phone connections, this is what our country would look like.

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When scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system that could sustain life, people wasted no time telling the aliens how we feel.

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Attention middle and high school students: You're going to want to go to this school!

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How one couple learned to communicate when ALS took his voice, using an old-fashioned alphabet and open-source technology.

Catapult Design explains how they've used The Noun Project's icons as they work on design projects for social change.

A sensor-equipped glove that translates gestures into audible words could be a game-changer for the speech and hearing-impaired.

If we drew state lines based on cell phone connections, this is what our country would look like.

Their answers about whether their degrees are worth it might just surprise you.

When scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system that could sustain life, people wasted no time telling the aliens how we feel.

Attention middle and high school students: You're going to want to go to this school!

Fresh from a new online collection of historical documents, an ancient Chinese tradition shows us a better way to send hate mail in 2011.

Behold: John's Phone, the simplest mobile phone in the world.

Last summer I found myself at the legendary Burning Man festival, the eclectic arts experience extraordinaire in...

An inner-city schoolteacher examines the lack of parental involvement. We're in the midst of parent-teacher conferences here in...

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