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Warren St. John, author of "Outcasts United," joins us to talk about his experience in a small town in Georgia with a soccer team made up of refugees from around the world. It's not just a story about soccer.

Rob and Lizette Greco are doing their best to raise their children artfully, outside the educational establishment, and with a small environmental footprint.

Information doesn't fade the way it used to. Records once forgotten in long-lost files are now searchable online — perhaps forever. Some computer researchers are looking for ways to give data a life span. But others think we should adapt to a new reality of data that will never die.

Between Sarah Palin's half-million Twitter followers and President Obama holding a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters on Wednesday, there's no denying that new media will have a huge impact on the 2012 presidential election — and not necessarily in the ways you would expect.

Culture Lust contributor Randy Dotinga explores the San Diego of 1894 through an old guidebook. He discovers there were more newspapers and a "perfect" sewer system.

Everything, especially the news, is moving faster and faster. At this increasingly accelerated pace, is it inevitable that noteworthy events will rush lickety-split into each other, overwhelming us? Or will we just tune it all out?

The new phone, which has voice assistance, longer battery life and a better camera, will be launched on Oct. 14. Many of Apple's fans who had been looking forward to seeing a completely new device — the iPhone 5 — were disappointed by what many saw as an incremental improvement.

In the past decade, Wikipedia has become part of our cultural fabric. Its articles range from trivial to useful -- even with the occasional error. As many readers know, the site always has something interesting to offer.

If you're hanging out on Facebook, chances are good you're probably playing a game. A new poll says 20 percent of Americans -- 56.8 million people -- have played a game on a social network site in the last three months. When you shell out $30 to get a virtual dog out of a pound that doesn't really exist, who's the real winner?

Evan Ratliff eschewed his identity and picked up a new one, challenging Wired readers to find him in 30 days in a contest sponsored by the magazine. Lured by a cash prize, readers mobilized online in a mad dash to locate Ratliff — who got a little too cocksure for his own good.