Today is Chinese New Year. After you're done with your jiaozi, sit back and read this article: According to the Chinese, 4071 is is going to be a bad year. Fasten your seat belts.
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A mini-break from Facebook is quite possibly the perfect way to ring in 2012.
Over at Wired, GOOD contributor Parag Khanna takes a look at the countries around the world where problems could flare up in the next few years,...
With so many problems of its own, why does the First World think it can solve Third World's problems? A new competition asks if it shouldn't...
Seven craft projects to glitz up your NYE.
While a top international scholar is teaching in the States, who's educating college students back in that professor's homeland?
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Crafts to carry you through the new year.
The creative director at a Los Angeles ad agency is remodeling his house. And he wants to reclaim concepts like "family," happiness" and "loyalty"...
Rural Norway offers an object lesson in what is possible when a government invests in high design, architecture, and infrastructure.
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Does money buy happiness? Americans spent over $45 billion during Thanksgiving weekend, but we're still near the bottom of the Happy Planet Index.
New Hospital opens this week in Rural Rwanda.
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A new tuberculosis test can diagnose TB in under two hours instead of taking months.
Multimedia artist Jonathan Harris tells the story of Bhutanese happiness while overlooking the struggles of minority refugee groups
From gaming to teacher leadership, 2011 brought plenty of classroom innovation that promises to make us smarter.
From deaths to uprisings to natural disasters, 2011 seemed like a year with almost too much news. Here's a 60-second roundup.
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