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Three Years of Silent Retreat
A conversation with one of the West's only female lamas, Christie McNally. In late 2010, in the sun scorched highlands of Arizona's Chirakawa...
Technology
Digital World Explorer
The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human...
Culture
Oren Moverman Shot The Messenger
A conversation with the director of a powerful new film about notifying families of our war dead. The Messenger tells the tale of a young...
Youssou N'Dour on Music, Islam, and Obama
In the wake of controversy, and in the spotlight of a new documentary, the venerable musician opens up. You have probably heard the Senegalese...
Stop Feeding Your Garbage Can
Talking to the chef of America's least wasteful restaurant Of the 350 billion pounds of food produced in America each year, we throw away a...
I Get Fat with a Little Help from My Friends
James Fowler explains how smoking, obesity, and happiness can be contagious. In their pioneering research, James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis...
Design
Lomography: Analog Art in a Digital World
An interview with Lomographic Society North America CEO Ulli Barta. Last month, the iconic Lomography movement opened an ambitious retail space...
Environment
An Apple a Day...
Dr. Preston Maring is bringing farmers markets to hospitals. Hospitals and food have a pretty lousy history together. It's a pairing that...
Beer Summit
Jim Koch, founder and chairman of The Boston Beer Company, brewers of Samuel Adams Beer, is a pioneer of the American palate as well as a quiet...
Design
GOOD Q&A: Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair founded Architecture for Humanity 10 years ago this April, with the elegantly simple-though thoroughly revolutionary-idea of...
Coolhaus Ice-cream Sandwiches
Together at last: modern architecture, ice-cream sandwiches, and wordplay. Natasha Case and Freya Estreller founded their venture Farchitecture...
Telling the Stories of Immigrant Children
Rebecca Cammisa's Which Way Home follows children who desperately try to cross the U.S.-Mexican border. In the last several years, immigration...
GOOD Q&A: Peter Singer
On PETA and the ethics of dog shows. The philosopher Peter Singer is considered by many to be the intellectual father of the "animal rights...
Action, In Words and Pictures
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change. With his new book Actions Speak Loudest,...
Environment
A Tale of a Plastic Ship
David de Rothschild will soon set sail on the Plastiki, a boat constructed out of re-purposed plastic bottles. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and a...
A Portrait of Advertising by a Young Man
Doug Pray's new documentary, Art and Copy, chronicles the evolution of creative advertising by exploring connections between great art and great...
Into the Open: Positioning Practice at Parsons The New School for Design
Studio 804 designed an arts center for a rebuilding project Greensburg, Kansas, a town flattened by a tornado in 2008. How's architecture...
The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout...
