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A Photo Gallery from Hasankeyf, Turkey The Southeastern Anatolian Project (GAP), Turkey's ambitious, 12-phase hydropower initiative, has been in...
Read & DiscussCan Provocative Photos of TB Sufferers Open Washington's Wallet?
As we mentioned in Friday's "This Week in GOOD," 50 cities across all seven continents debuted James Nachtwey's photographs depicting the...
Read & DiscussVillage of the Dammed
Part 6 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Our first...
Read & DiscussDispatch from Batman
Part 5 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. On the way to Hasankeyf, my...
Read & DiscussCulture Clash
Part 4 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Before heading to Hasankeyf, the...
Read & DiscussEverything Is Not Consistently Illuminated
Part 3 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Very...
Read & DiscussBridging the GAP
Part 2 in "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu Dam. Self-defined as a "rather...
Read & DiscussIlisu: Making Waves
Part 1 of "Village of the Dammed," a blog mini-series from Turkey, on the country's controversial Ilisu...
Read & DiscussStrange Fruit
Last Wednesday was Spain's over-ripe tomato food-fight festival, Tomatino. Sad, you missed it, but you can still look at photos, which are...
Read & DiscussHolden On
Anne Trubek, english professor at Oberlin College, fielded questions about Catcher in the Rye on NPR this weekend. She defended her suggestion...
Read & DiscussGOOD Weekend
As we post, New Orleans will spend its Labor Day is carrying out its second mandatory evacuation in three years, in anticipation of...
Read & DiscussThree Years After Katrina
Anniversaries are a time for celebrating how we've grown, acknowledging the distances we've traversed, congratulating each other for the...
Read & DiscussIndie-pendant Party
Another good thing about Obama: the music. Last night in Denver, Mayor Gavin Newsom reminded us he was really really cool by organizing a...
Read & DiscussWhat's Red Or Blue, And Green All Over
The DNC and the RNC are respectively making efforts to be the greenest national political conventions in history. The DNC isn't just running their...
Read & DiscussThat Sinking Feeling
Sinkholes are the result of water eating away bedrock and soil underground, causing the earth to drop out from under itself in vast depressions or...
Read & DiscussTalk To The Hand
In the days of yore (1989 to be exact), we saw the inception of Mattel's NES controller The Power Glove, the two-decades-old predecessor to the...
Read & DiscussNuclear Warhead + Paper Clip = Problem Solved By MacGyver
We were bowled over by a wave of shameless nostalgia mixed with a renewed sense of awe when we came across this very extensive (but not yet...
Read & DiscussGod Fetish
"You really think all nuns are old, stunted and sad? This isn't the case anymore," says one Italian Father Antonio Rungi. And to prove this to...
Read & DiscussMeet Joe Biden
To complement GOOD's on-the-ground coverage at the both national conventions, here's a little background on Obama's VP pick. Vanity Fair's Todd S....
Read & DiscussThe Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
We noticed this plagued Kottke the other day, and we knew there was a word for it...The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is the experience of learning...
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