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The Noun Project: Using Iconic Design Tools for Social Change

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

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Smart Glove: Voice Recognition for Sign Language Users

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

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This Is the Connected States of America

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

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Is College Worth the Money? Reflections from Six Graduates of the Class of 2011

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

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"Long Live Dave Grohl": The 22 Best Messages Sent to the New Planet

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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Meet the Video Game School of the Future

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

Best Hate Mail Ever: The Chinese Hate Poem

Fresh from a new online collection of historical documents, an ancient Chinese tradition shows us a better way to send hate mail in 2011.

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GOOD Design Daily: The World's Simplest Mobile Phone

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

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The Amazing Adventures of the Traveling Advice Booth

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

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Mind the Gap

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

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..