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A Little Awkward
A Little Awkward

How to socialize the hipster way and get a discount at Starbucks along the way.

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Giving Design
Giving Design

Why design will save the world and a potent remedy for your quarterlife crisis.

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Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games
Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games

Rice from Shakespeare, how to help cure cancer, 60 million ways spam helps literature, a first-person snooper, and solid proof you may be the wrong gender.

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She, Him & Us
She, Him & Us

What 1962 and a perfectly timed violin have in common.

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It Happened Today
It Happened Today

It most certainly did.

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The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008
The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008

8 things that shaped the year’s innovation footprint, or what Buckminster Fuller has to do with tap water and Michael Phelps.

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Geek Wednesdays: The Ephemeral Web
Geek Wednesdays: The Ephemeral Web

A modern time machine for data and what we can learn about the web from Victorian toys.

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Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess
Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess

What Van Gogh has to do with Big Tobacco and how piles of folded laundry put the prison system in perspective.

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Retro Blast
Retro Blast

Saggy superheroes, dance lessons from James Brown, what chickens have to do with the roots of hip hop, how to fix all your marriage troubles, and why Springfield, MO is a nerd hotspot.

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Live Responsible is the New LIVESTRONG
Live Responsible is the New LIVESTRONG

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