
Seven craft projects to glitz up your NYE.

2010 has tied 2005 for the title of warmest year on record, but don't expect it to hold the position atop the charts for long.

From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.

Native Americans dive into the frigid Puget Sound to harvest these incredible (and incredibly ugly) bivalves for markets in Asia.

The Chevy Volt racks up its most impressive award yet: North American Car of the Year.

How a teacher prepares his students to dive into the shark tank that is middle school. As usual, Jatavia was the first to arrive exactly at 7:30...

In our new issue, we profile Bruce Bueno de Mesquita--who essentially maintains that mathematics can be used to predict the future. Of course, the...

Today, Lego celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, and we here at GOOD wanted to say congratulations. There are now 62 Legos for each human being on...

Over at TreeHugger, a curated collection of the best maps they saw all year:
Maps. They make everything a little bit better. They have the...

Anniversaries are a time for celebrating how we've grown, acknowledging the distances we've traversed, congratulating each other for the...

A Pakistani lawyer lunges over a snarl of barbed wire, fleeing a blast of tear gas. A Kenyan man lies on his back on the dirt, surrounded by...

What the health care debate and the credit crisis have in common
Did you hear? Barrack Hussein Obama wants to pull the plug on your granny, so...

Hurricane Ike remains a strange moment in our nations recent history. In a world where Hurricane Katrina hadn't happened, it would have been huge...

The Onion does Wikipedia doing the Declaration of Independence, which was signed 750 years ago, today..
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We hate to be all Slate-centric, but some of these stories are simply too good to resist. You may know Slate's regular column the Explainer (one...

For our LA readers, we'd like to tell you about a chance to support City Year, one of our Choose GOOD Partners. On April 17, come to a fundraiser...

Check out the Reuters year in pictures (barring some major news event in the next two weeks). It's a nice way to zoom through the year in a few...

Welcome to 2008. We're glad to be back.We're not sure about the usefulness of New Year's resolutions. It's all well and good to start the year off...

For its Quick 10, Mental Floss offers a reverent and informative behind-the-stories look at Dr. Seuss, who died on this day in 1991. It delves...