As educators and parents, we need to be honest about how computerized testing serves to emphasize economic disparities.
Posted 03.22.2012
Look out, Google Earth. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have produced the most detailed map yet of Io, revealing Jupiter's large moon ...
Posted 12.24.2011
Akko Goldenbeld, a graduate student at the Design Academy Eindhoven, has created a realistic model of the city that doubles as a music roll for a play...
Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.10.2011
Michela Alitoto-Pier Born: San Francisco, CA, 1968 Current Gig: Former San Francisco Supervisor Why should we vote for you? As a member of ...
Valerie Jaffee | Posted 07.11.2011
The Department of Agriculture just released a new online tool, the Food Desert Locator, which allows you to see whether your community lacks access to affordable, fresh and healthy food.
The New Republic | Emily Garr | Posted 06.05.2011
In the three years since the recession began the number of unemployed in the nation increased by 90 percent, or 6.6 million people. As our latest geog...
Ineke Mushovic | Posted 05.25.2011
Amid the current fiscal challenges, the ability of LGBT movement organizations to seize emerging opportunities and defend hard-won progress is critical.
Paula Scher | Posted 05.25.2011
Last month, FAST COMPANY magazine published the best info-graphics of the year from their design blog. The choice was derived from FC's own postings o...
John Lipsky | Posted 05.25.2011
2011 represents a pivotal year for the global economic recovery and for international policy cooperation -- as well as for the role of the Fund in addressing these two principal challenges.
Slate Labs | | Bethany McLean | Posted 05.25.2011
A 2009 study by the Department of Agriculture found that 2.3 million households do not have access to a car and live more than a mile from a supermark...
Posted 05.25.2011
A new time-lapse video illustrates the depressing rise of food stamp usage throughout the U.S. The video's creator, Zero Hedge's John Lohman, point...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
PBS's NewsHour and the Christian Science Monitor have created an interactive map showing the geographic distribution of self-identified Tea Partiers. It reveals some interesting truths about the movement -- and the GOP's future.
Darell Hammond | Posted 05.25.2011
Although there are many things that people have taken the time to chart geographically, one thing you won't find is a comprehensive map of play areas in your community. It's time to change that.
Posted 08.23.2011
Some may be curious of the U.S. fault lines with earthquakes in the news lately. The fact is most states are at risk of major earthquakes, with 39 ...
guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011
A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other l...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Much to the shock of New Yorkers -- nay, Americans -- the Los Angeles Times ran a piece Wednesday declaring the City of Angels the Jewish deli capital...
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A rarely seen 400-year-old map that identified Florida as "the Land of Flowers" and put China at the center of the world went on di...
Posted 05.25.2011
Much to the shock of New Yorkers -- nay, Americans -- the Los Angeles Times ran a piece Wednesday declaring the City of Angels the Jewish deli capital...
Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011
The list of the more than 1,000 dealerships that GM plans to close has begun to trickle in. On Friday, GM dealerships across the country began receivi...
Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011
The list of the more than 1,000 dealerships that GM plans to close has begun to trickle in. On Friday, GM dealerships across the country began receivi...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Another day, another 37 mew statewide polls (as of this writing) logged into the Pollster.com database. Today's batch managed to change classification...
Melissa Bollow Tempel | Posted 05.22.2012