Patrick James
Sure, it's a bit trivial, but this Futuristic Movie Timeline really puts things into perspective, in terms of both how prescient and how far off we can be when setting fictional stories in the near or distant future.
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People Are Awesome: The Coffee Shop Where Everyone Pays for Everyone Else's Drinks
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
The fault zone that produced the largest known earthquake in the Lower 48 is "nine months pregnant and overdue." This time line illustrates it.
I really hate to help BP in spreading any information of compromised integrity, but this video, which describes how the company has started using...
Less than two months after being initially discovered, the homeless man with the radio voice has been abandoned by his benefactors.
So apparently Kevin Costner (yes, that Kevin Costner) has spent millions of dollars over the last eight years developing a centrifuge-like device...
That heartening piece of news I posted earlier about the Chamber of Commerce dramatically reversing its stance on climate legislation seemed a...
The Chicago-based designer Sighn is producing a "limited" edition of one million hand-carved wood blocks bearing his comforting mantra: "It's okay."
On Defense Secretary Robert Gates's list of things to keep track of: car keys, cell phone, Pentagon security pass, wallet, and-oh yeah-those fuses...
There isn't much left to say about Sarah Palin's bizarre resignation and totally illogical reasoning that hasn't been said over the weekend, but...
Apparently, underwater worms that eat sediment burp out nitrous oxide, which causes climate change. They are not a problem now, because they are...
Despite concerns from environmentalists, indigenous leaders, and Sting, Brazil has confirmed construction of a new hydroelectric dam in the Amazon...
In his endearingly nerdy and often compulsive works, artist Andrew Kuo makes a brilliant career of sweating the small stuff.
Watch the Democratic rep sarcastically call out House Republicans for their draconian anti-scientific new bill.
Almost half a century ago, a 24-year-old rocked the design world. The architect's vision for modular housing-his master's thesis, actually-was...
Staunch opponents of the government protecting the public create an energy guide to scare kids about the dangers of regulation.
Is there life on Mars?: David Bowie put this question to the world in 1973, and we've been hungry to answer it ever since. NASA's Viking mission...
A single case of the common cold can wipe out an entire tribe.
For our mini-Project today, we asked GOOD readers to send in images of their dream houses. Here's a selection of what you sent in.
What menus can tell us about trends in design, culinary, economic, and urban history—and even the rise and fall of fish populations.
The Bureau of Land Management has assured coal barons that public land will be available to buy and plunder, government shutdown or no.
Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, green jobs training opportunities can be found in communities across the nation. Training...
