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This promises to be a joyous holiday season for Steve Jobs and the incandescent Apple. Over the past year, the company's...

Mike Rowe has drawn a crowd. Again. This time it's on a chilly December night in Florence, South Carolina, at a local joint called J. Michael's Grill...

Don't get Duncan Watts started on the Hush Puppies. "Oh, God," he groans when the subject comes up. "Not them." The Hush Puppies in question are the...

The Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an outlandish cartoon village in listing brick and scrolling aluminum, with a...

Imagine you're a consultant to the New Year's Resolution industry. Your clients are a deeply dysfunctional bunch. Every January, they proudly announce their...

Fast Company is about to shake things up again. Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: "Computing is Social." It became a Fast...

Every morning on my way to work I encounter a treat in the form of a boxy orange truck (a former Con Edison truck converted into a "gourmet coffee" truck) parked in front of...

It's no secret there has never been a more empowering moment for musicians. Instead of the old model where The Strokes wannabes aspired to have a major label come salivating...

Interesting article in Wednesday's New York Times about Facebook making it easier...

1. INNOVATION, NOT INSTANT PERFECTION. "There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the...

GE has been on the cutting edge of innovation since their founder Thomas Edison flipped the switch for his electric light bulb more than 125 years ago. From hybrid locomotives that reduce...

It's too good to be true. That's what Andy Rubin was thinking back in 2005. He'd worked for more than a decade at various tech outfits, including a...

Given the amount of pushing, shoving, and line-jumping going on at last week’s opening of Design and the Elastic Mind, you’d have thought MOMA had just gotten a...

In May 2007, nearly six months after he was hired, AOL chief executive Randy Falco gathered his employees together for an "all hands" meeting at the...

"Whatever you do, don't hurt Barack!" It was the afternoon of Super Tuesday, and the Chicago sky threatened snow. Senator Barack Obama had just...

Iceland is an anomalous place. First, thanks to the Gulf Stream, it isn't all that icy. That would be Greenland, named by Erik the Red, the inventor...

You ought to be in pictures. No, really. Companies are increasingly using simple pictures to distill complicated concepts into easily shared, easily remembered...

Exotic-animal trainers need a great poker face. Let's say you're a trainer, and one day, a beluga whale spits a mouthful of cold water at you. Your first...

Tim Gunn's right eyebrow is shooting toward the sky like a boomerang. It's the signature gaze, filtered through a pair of rimless glasses perched on...

The Engineer David Warren Lee Chairman, Project Director, and Systems Engineer Society For Sustainable Mobility Malibu,...

As far as e-commerce has come, it still remains in its infancy. A glance in any spam folder is proof positive that online retailers haven't yet refined their...

They gave the world guns and butter -- specifically, the AK-47 and margarine. They sent Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis from New York to...

The No. 2 killer in Africa by parasite, after malaria, is an organism called Entamoeba histolytica -- or "Eh" for short. It was discovered...

In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia province, the country's...

A simple stroll down the streets of Kinshasa reveals how precarious life has become in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This city of ugly half-finished buildings radiates...

That the West is losing the sub-Sahara does not come as news in Africa itself. One leader after another has been explicit on this point, from Senegal's president ("Today,...

When my plane smacks down in Equatorial Guinea -- where if the captain misses the runway, you could end up in Cameroon -- I become the first American journalist to visit this...

A friend of mine who happens to be a political journalist just returned from a 10 day holiday jaunt through Europe last week. His most startling discovering, he told me: Europeans are gaga over...

"Gentleman Callers" candles. "Fat Pig" chocolates. "Dogmatic" gourmet hot dogs. It's no surprise this slew of new tongue-in-cheek brands come straight from the front...

I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa....

Beyond the double glass doors, out past the marble fountain burbling near the Tiger Woods building, a billion perfect blades of grass stood at attention....

Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, D.C., is one of the worst schools in one of the worst school districts in America."The...

The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were...

When D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee got a shout-out from Barack Obama in the third...