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Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his “general theory of

A skyscraper that channels the breeze … a building that creates community around a hearth … Jeanne Gang uses architecture

In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down

Before soldiers are sent into combat, they’re trained on how to function in an immensely dangerous environment. But they also

On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat’s brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor’s sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor

Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a

Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting until

TED TALKS… When a kid commits a crime, the US justice system has a choice: prosecute to the full extent

[ted id=2457] We don’t have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it, says

Hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean, Laura Robinson probes the steep slopes of massive undersea mountains. She’s