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Uruguay's Schools Give Each Kid a Laptop, While America Twiddles Its Thumbs

One-to-one laptop programs in America are still novelties. In Uruguay, all elementary students have had a laptop since 2009.

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Feast Your Eyes: This Edible Display Uses Dried Fruit as Pixels

Like a craisin Lite Brite, this prototype from the University of Tokyo might one day customize displays with flavors and colors to match your mood.

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At Toronto's Human Library You Check Out People, Not Books

Inspired by "living libraries" around the world, Toronto's Human Library allows you to check out a person for 30 minutes and "read" their life story.

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Victorian Romance Between Data and Literature

Two historians are charting how frequently words like "God," "love," "work," and "science" appear in turn-of-the-century Victorian literature.

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WikiLockdown: Three Questions on the Arrest of Julian Assange

Now that Assange has turned himself in, what does everything mean?