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“Half of us will write on bathroom walls in lipstick if it pays—women’s rooms with two hands.”

Today’s sportswriters don’t have the discipline that their predecessors did. “They’re writing quickly, so there’s no time for thought and cerebral thinking on an article. They’re just banging away.”

A conversation with the writer and sports historian.

The changes to our urban and rural areas will reinvent our education system.

James Randi has shunned faith since he was a kid spending collection plate money on ice cream. “If my dad and mom are up there someplace… I ask them to […]

The Yale computer guru decries the dangerous trend of know-it-all scientists (Richard Dawkins?) telling people that “religion is trash.”

Industrialism taught us how to be wasteful of material and human resources. We need to get out of this mess.

Jane Jacobs once said: “When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave.” New York doesn’t have to worry.

Our geography is an economic and political geography. It’s a geography of class, it’s a geography of political partisanship, and it’s a geography of anger. That “worries the heck” out […]

Whether it’s in service, creative fields, or agriculture, people deserve work that’s meaningful, pays well and uses their skills.

Richard Florida worries about the notion that you can rebuild Detroit around an urban farm. Why would you turn a great city into a cornfield?

Forget the “American Dream” for home ownership. We need a system for a 21st Century that fits our flexible and mobile economy.

The U.S. hasn’t been making much of the possibilities brought by the downturn—but most other countries have been doing even less.

A conversation with the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

What will ultimately drive business to prioritize sustainability?

Companies that are leading the way in reducing their environmental impact.

The short term internal benefits of integrated reporting will eventually lead to a companies superior performance.

It’s an obvious idea that’s crucial to building a sustainable society. So why are we behind?

The major question of the 21st century “is whether human beings can summon the integrity … to resist the many ways in which computers will encroach on human dignity.”

While the system continues to revolutionize and evolve, its unchanging failure is its inability to monetize.

The centerfold of a Superman comic book inspired the inventor who sent the first-ever Internet message.

Digital technology has solved the problems of visualization and building. Going forward, great architects will “deal with the exceptionality of the synthetic moment in inventive ways.”

Engineers progress in their work by testing things so that they fail.

Ultimately architecture is unique. Each building sits in a site in a certain moment in a very different way.

“Green” architecture is a kind of “soup du jour” at many firms, but the push to create sustainable buildings is an important movement.

Composite materials have had a vast impact on the way that we think about structural skins.

The social nature of technology instigates a relationship between images and words, and allows many more people to be involved in the drawing platform.

Design education can either embrace the world in all its complexity or concentrate on singular elements in depth.

A conversation with the M.I.T. Architecture professor and Office dA principal.

In his work with the government, the professor helps to suss out the underlying motives of our allies and enemies.