Filmaker and writer John de Graaf is in Brazil for the International Gross Happiness Conference and were thrilled to have him as a guest at Utne.com. where he'll be posting dispatches from the conference....
The University of California’s tuition hike is the latest move in a long-standing trend of disinvestment in higher education....
How much do you know about what the world thinks? Take a quiz and find out....
Kentucky Fried Chicken's "healthier" grilled alternative also has carcinogens...
We don't know much about the New Zealand Book Council, but if this incredible animated promotional film is any indication, it is a council of wonder, beauty, and adventure....
A British company allowing people to anonymously monitor some of London's 4.3 million CCTVs, and make money while doing it....
If I’m wearing a jacket, is the earth really warming? Most of the United States had a notably cool summer and fall, a phenomenon that plenty of climate-change skeptics have seized upon...
When a natural disaster strikes or violence breaks out in a country, a map can change the nature of the crisis....
Too often when we talk about accessibility issues for people with visual, hearing,
motor, or cognitive disabilities we're talking about physical
infrastructure only. What about the web?
Will there be a nuclear power renaissance in the United States, as a host of rosy-glassed prognosticators have predicted? Not as long as it remains such an abysmal investment opportunity ...