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I loved this article because it showed how the local food movement is working hard to be accessible to a lower income demographic.  

This could be very helpful in connecting museums with their immediate communities around them.

Ok, no longer an obscure "scan hit" faint on the horizon... news about driverless cars has come to my small town's local newspaper! 

Americans may be turning away from the hard sciences at universities, but they are increasingly showing up at "science cafes" in local bars and restaurants to listen to scientific talks over a drink or a meal.

Here's a way for museums to invite the local community in...offering their unused/unscheduled spaces

South African educators have to construct the next practice in learning and teaching by integrating local and global knowledge in a unique space (what Bhabha refers to as a ‘third’ space).

Design thinking in elementary school.

Census Bureau defines "downtown," for lack of a better universal definition, as everything within a 2-mile radius of the local city hall.

This map shows the location of every independent coffee shop in Brooklyn and the walking-shed community associated with it. Independent coffee shops are positive markers of a living community. They function as social spaces, urban offices, and places to see the world go by. Communities are often formed by having spaces in which people can have casual interactions, and local and walkable coffee shops create those conditions, not only in the coffee shop themselves, but on the sidewalks around them. We use maps to know where these coffee shop communities exist and where, by placing new coffee shops, we can help form them. We applied two steps to generate the data displayed by the map. First, we used the Google Places API to locate all coffee shops in a given city. Second, for each point in the map we queried the walking route and distance to its nearest coffee shop using the Google Distance Matrix API. In the final map the colored areas represent a region which is walkable to a specific coffee shop (within one kilometer or 0.7 miles). The intensity of color at each point indicates its distance from its corresponding coffee shop.

3D printing has made it to our local middle school!

For years, libraries have been a place people turn to for information to help them solve problems. But the challenges patrons are dealing with are increasingly beyond the scope of what most librarians are trained to handle - and that's where social workers can fill in the gaps.

With Millennials spending more like the Depression Era generations than their parents (or even grandparents), it reminds us that cycles have to be factored in when considering the future.

An important reminder of how important the arts can be in everyone's life, and a challenge to continue finding new ways of connecting with all of our visitors.