Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor
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What Country Has the Best Higher Education System?
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Help Save the Newspaper By and For L.A. Teenagers
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Part Peace Corps, Part Venture Capital: Code for America's Plan for Public Innovation
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On Mother's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Mamas
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The 'Map of Life' Will Track Every Plant and Animal on the Entire Planet
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Environment
How an Idaho Couple Wound Up Defending the Nation's Biggest Polluters
The Sacketts say they just wanted to build a lake house. But their case against the EPA could give corporations more leeway to pollute waterways.
Business
Bear Market
As you may have heard, venerable investment house Bear Stearns is no more. Hopefully, the government-arranged buyout by JP Morgan will prevent any...
News
McCain's Troop Purge
John McCain, if you haven't heard, has fired five top aides in the last eight days for their lobbying ties. Yesterday, his campaign outlined...
Education
Schools not Troops?
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail...
GOOD Blog
Bad News Bears
A team of geologists is currently being held hostage in remote Russia by a pack of ten-foot-tall, ton-and-a-half brown bears.As many as 30 mean,...
News
Intermission: No Bears There
When a bear meets his first existential crisis.
News
Marching with the Troops on Veterans Day
More than two million men and women have served or continue to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. Looking for a simple way to support them today?
GOOD Blog
Martian Bears Hibernate In These
That's right folks--or, rather, that's possibly right folks...NAU researches have posited that what appear to be football field-sized holes on the...
News
Should We Send 40,000 More Troops to Afghanistan?
"Make no mistake: We are experts in the application of violence. We are attacking to seize control of the population from the Taliban. The people...
GOOD Blog
The Bears Are Winners In Uganda
The NFL sends all the loser merchandise from the big game to a relief organization that works mainly in Africa. On one hand, it seems like a noble...
Culture
Image of the Day: Working to Honor Our Troops
As part of the war effort, an aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, in June, 1942.
Design
A Strung Out Polar Bear and A Not Starving Artist
Damien Hirst has a lot more dollars than he did last week, but he has far fewer formaldehyde-submerged dead animals. Meanwhile, in...
News
The Nissan Leaf Polar Bear Ad Is Pretty Great
In this new ad for the Nissan Leaf, the majestic polar bear, his habitat crumbling, makes the lonely trek to suburban America. But to what end?...
Lifestyle
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Child's Play: A Teddy Bear to Help Diabetic Kids Master Their Care
He's cute, cuddly, and looking for a shot of insulin. Jerry the Bear is not your average stuffed animal.
Environment
Are Salazar and Obama Really Hanging Polar Bears Out to Dry?
Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today that he won't be overturning that 11th-hour rule that Bush imposed on his way out of office. The...
Technology
Part 4: Rescue Bots of the Future
Not only are robots being used for military offensives, but they are also being deployed to rescue wounded soldiers. These robot medics can...
News
Will the Bank Rescue Plan Work?
Timothy Geithner has announced his bank rescue plan, which seems to amount to the government buying horrible assets from banks at grossly inflated...
News
The Armchair Refugee Rescue Operation, Phase 1
So you wake up one day, after a full night's sleep, and you're feeling good. You sip some coffee, you read the paper. Maybe a morning dove...
News
The Armchair Refugee Rescue Operation, Phase 2
I think it’s time to face a few facts. When I began this endeavor a few months ago, I had little concept of what the moving a refugee out of...
Lifestyle
Watch The Chilean Miners Get Rescued
Some of the miners are out of the hole. Find out how to watch the rest come up live.
