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Major Print Publishers Gang Up to Pre-Empt Apple, Already Make Mistakes

Well, it's been recently speculated, and now it's true: Five big names in ink-and-paper magazine and newspaper publishing have ganged up in a joint venture. It's aim, despite grandiose PR? Outsmart Apple, and side-step Amazon. The ...READ»

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Will the FDA End Our Dysfunctional Relationship With OxyContin?

Dearest hillbilly heroin, you're nothing if not addictive, but now that the FDA is planning to make it even more difficult for doctors to prescribe you, we need to talk. It's not you, it's ... Actually, it's you.READ»

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8 Medical iPhone Apps You Should Prescribe to Your Health-Care Professional

It's a safe bet that one of your doctors has an iPhone. But what you may not realize is that he or she is using it as part of your overall treatment. From reading APGAR scores to x-rays, there is a fascinating array of health-care ...READ»

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Design Crimes: Philadelphia's Awful New Logo

A 65-person committee and a design firm working pro-bono put their heads together--and commit a crime against all designers working today.READ»

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Eye Candy of the Day: 300 of the World's Hottest Poster Designs

Typo/Graphic Posters unveils a beautifully redesigned site, showing off typopgraphically driven posters from over the world.READ»

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Just in Time for Copenhagen, Green Patents Get a Boost

Have a brilliant green tech idea that you're just itching to get to store shelves? Now's the time to file a patent. The U.S. government is cutting the average review time for green technology-related patents from 40 months to 12 ...READ»

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Spot the Difference, and Win a Sonos Wireless Sound System

Up for grabs: A wireless home audio setup from Sonos to a lucky reader who can spot the difference in this set of images.READ»

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Designers Know How to Recognize a Great Package

Check out these clever concepts for a packaging-design award.READ»

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Twitter Really Works: Makes $6.5 Million in Sales for Dell

All you doubting Thomases can shut up now: Lifecasting/social net Twitter really does work as a marketing tool, as confirmed by PC retail leviathan Dell. Dell started Tweeting about two years ago, when the system was pretty new. ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Visualizing Hot Air in the Global Warming "Debate"

A graphic summarizing the debate between global warming skeptics and the scientific consensus.READ»

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An Urban Farm Teaches Millennials How to Disobey

An agricultural intervention in San Francisco hopes to instill a sense of collective action and ownership in 18- to 30-year-olds.READ»

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Kit-Kat Gives Developing Nations a "Break," Goes Fair-Trade in U.K.

First Cadbury announced a plan earlier this year to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana. Then Mars promised to source all chocolate from sustainable suppliers by 2020, and now Nestle--the world's largest food manufacturer--has followed ...READ»

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How Much Is That Google in the Window Threatening Foursquare's Local Business Game?

We already know Google wants to be everything for everyone in search. Now they're extending that goal into the real world, sticking physical tags on the windows of actual businesses from its online Favorite Places catalog. Should ...READ»

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Why Design Needs to Appeal Waylon 'n' Willie and Dixie Chicks

That country audience is the one we designers need to "play to" if we're going to broaden the appeal of our best work.READ»

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Ask Dan Heath: The Problem With Monthly Reports

Dear Dan, Everybody on my team is required to submit a monthly report. Always have been, always will be. Every single month, though, I have to chase some people down to turn it in, like it's a surprise to them that it's due. I've ...READ»

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Enroll in a Crash Course at "Lost" University

Lessons in the physics of time-travel and underwater plot-weaving offered to students of the new online "Lost University." The tuition? the purchase price of Season 5 on Blu-Ray, available in stores starting today.READ»

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Best of TreeHugger: Inhabited Bridges, PETA Classified as Terrorists, and ex-KGB Climate Hackers

This week in TreeHugger: check out the world's inhabited bridges, find out why the USDA classified PETA as a terrorist threat, and see if 'climategate' was orchestrated by ex-KGB operatives.READ»

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Picassos With Pixels: 12 Groundbreaking Pieces of Digital Art

This Tuesday, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is vaulting into the digital age, with "Decode: Digital Design Sensations," an exhibition of cutting-edge digital art and design. We've gathered pictures and videos for 12 of the pieces on display. READ»

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Facebook Limits Google Live Search, But It Might Backfire

A big surprise was buried in Google's real time search cavalcade yesterday: The teeny, tiny role that Facebook played in the news. Accompanied by lots of "wow! look at that!" speech, Google's real-time search updates were the ...READ»