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Trading up

Everyone has a skill they can share. That’s the theory behind the new OurGoods trade school in New York City, a space where artists and performers share each other’s abilities and help each other finish projects. New Hampshire Public Radio reported on the project earlier this week, and the New York Times also picked it [...]

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Naming the old decade, defining the new

As we head towards the end of the decade, there’s been much discussion around what to call the past 10 years, and where we’re heading beyond that. What were the 00’s called? The ‘Ohs?’ Coming in at First Place in the running to name the decade is the “aughts” or playfully, the “aughties.” We already [...]

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Hitting the road

We’ve written before about WNYC’s Your Uncommon Economic Indicators (YUEI for lack of a better term!) project, which asks listeners to send in videos, stories, and photos showing how the economic downturn is being seen on a street-by-street level. This is just one of several projects mapping the economy, but now the technology behind YUEI [...]

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