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Where the Robots Came From

Exploring the sci-fi (and simply sci) roots of the word. Robots are in the air, and I don’t just mean flying robots like the...

Public Transit's Quickest Fix: Revolutionize the Bus

Yglesias recently linked to a great New York magazine article, "Subway on the Street," positing that focusing on across-the-board...

The Week That Was: GOOD Education

The Week That Was. Four days to go. The White House and GOOD are joining forces yet again. This time, with the Let's Move! initiative, we are...

The Urbivore's Dilemma: From Take-out to CSAs

In Grist's Ubivore's Dilemma blog, a New Yorker named Jennifer Prediger chronicles her attempt to eschew a diet that consisted almost...

Remembering Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen

  As you might have read, Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen died Monday in Comox, British Columbia, from complications with Parkinson's...

Are Augmented Reality Textbooks on the Horizon?

Forget the iPad for just a moment. According to The New Media Consortium's 2010 Horizon Report, simple augmented reality is two to three...

What Can I Do to Prevent Power Outages During a Heat Wave?

Question: I live in Queens, New York, where the temperature today was a whopping 103 degrees! The weatherman on television said...

@GOOD Asks: What’s the Best Hidden Gem in Your Hometown No Tourist Would Find?

Yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, we asked our friends: What’s the best hidden gem in your hometown no tourist would find? We ask a...

Prepare Yourself for the World Cup Finals

The last match of World Cup 2010 is upon us. On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. eastern time, Spain and the Netherlands, arguably the two...

Why Don't More Writers Buy Books?

  A new submission model—wherein writers must buy a book if they want their work to be considered for publication—is shaking up...

The Credit Hour Conundrum

Is it possible to create a standard definition of a credit hour? What is a meter? Most people would be satisfied with an answer...

Education: Morning Roundup, Is Technology Making Us Stupid?

Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: The Medium Is the Medium Books are better than broadband. The Internet culture has...

California Strips Priuses of Carpool Lane Privileges

In 2005, California started issuing special "high-occupancy vehicle" stickers to people with Priuses and other hybrids. These stickers...

Should Voting Be Mandatory?

Here's an interesting idea: Perhaps we should prevent the ideological extremes from setting the agenda in American politics by making voting...

Levi's Campaign to Help Braddock Rebuild (and Sell Jeans)

As part of their new marketing campaign, Levi's, a jean company you've probably heard of, is investing in the rebirth of a struggling...

Chris Jordan's Newest Artistry of Scale: E Pluribus Unum

From his Running the Numbers series—in which he showed the sheer mass behind our collective consumption of everything from plastic bags to...

TED Global 2010: And Now The Good News

Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall The TED Conference has long been a beacon of positive change. Since 1984, the...

This Quarter's Magazine

Issue 019: The Neighborhoods Issue

In the past few generations, globalization has made our neighborhoods more uniform and less personal. While we were becoming citizens of the world, we forgot to be citizens of where we live. In this issue, we explore how we can fight homogeneity and preserve or recapture our unique communities.

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