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The bridges over the Thames go dark at night. A new competition wants to brighten them up.

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When national governments try to destroy the economy, cities can try to stop them.

The bike capital of the world keeps working to hold its title.

The bike capital of the world keeps working to hold its title.

Despite everything we see and hear about Copenhagen being a bike paradise, people do still drive cars in the Danish capital. Still, that doesn't make the latest bit of news from the bike capital of the world any less surprising: Now there are more bikes than cars entering the city each day.

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Turning slurs and swastikas into something better.

Turning slurs and swastikas into something better.

When Olivia Trimble woke up on November 11 and saw a Facebook post about a racist slur tagged on a local building in her hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas, she started looking for paint. Trimble—a sign painter—realized she could help.

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Ergonomic design for office workers has been around for decades. These exoskeletal devices aim to bring the idea to industrial workers.

In all the discussion of redesigning cities, how many people think of how they look from a shorter vantage point?

What if your mouth was ribbed for his pleasure?

What if your mouth was ribbed for his pleasure?

Prosthetics are almost always used to correct bodily malfunctions. Glasses, dentures, hearing aids, pacemakers—they all fix something in our bodies that's either broken or not working at 100%. But the next frontier of prosthetics might be additive: new additions that make your body better at something. And if that idea makes you uncomfortable, this example will certainly make you squeamish... Читать дальше...

Even before the election, Washington gridlock meant that U.S. cities often had to be the source of big ideas. Now that they're on their own, here's a grab bag of new ideas they can use.

The app Wobe taps into Southeast Asia's massive prepaid mobile phone market as a way to help low-income people become entrepreneurs.

If you're neighbors aren't using the grid as much, that's good for you.