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• Lifestyle

  

  Map: Globesity and Nutrition Data From Around the World

  What's the connection between world nutrition and globesity? Take a look at these maps.

  by Peter Smith

• Culture

  

  Should Quidditch be an NCAA Sport? The Real-Life World Cup of a Fictional Sport

  Thousands of somewhat athletic Harry Potter fans donned silly outfits and custom brooms to participate in the real life Quidditch World Cup.

  by Allison Burtch

• Lifestyle

  

  Feast Your Eyes: Where Are the World's Coffee Drinkers?

  A global look at one of the world's most widely taken drugs.

  by Peter Smith

• Design

  

  Check Out The World's Oldest Computer, Replicated in Lego

  The Antikythera mechanism, built around 150 B.C, has been recreated out of Lego, along with a cool (Lego) video showing how the ancient relic worked.

  by Alex Goldmark

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Second World

  Way back in the time of Issue 005, Parag Khanna wrote a great Provocation for us called "Peshawar Politics." More recently, he published this...

  by Patrick James

• Design

  

  Third World 2.0

  For his "Contradictions" series, Italian artist Filippo Minelli is painting the names of various buzz-making web 2.0 properties onto structures...

  by Andrew Price

• GOOD Blog

  

  "Third World Farmer"

  Here is the latest step in our quest to bring you not-very-fun internet games that attempt (but fail) to make you think seriously about important...

  by Anonymous

• Design

  

  World LEEDer

  The new Hearst building, designed by Norman Foster, has been certified with a Gold LEED rating, the first office building in New York with that...

  by Anonymous

• Design

  

  World's Longest Novel

  You spend a few weeks trying to navigate your way through the will-they-won't-they of Sam Richardson's Clarissa or Pamela and you start thinking,...

  by Patrick James

• GOOD Blog

  

  World Record

  Our second issue featured a story on the ARChive, an organization in New York attempting to create a record of American popular music by...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• GOOD Blog

  

  Media-ting The World

  In GOOD 003, we offered our Media Mogul All-Star trading cards. In a similar vein, Reclaim the Media now offers Media Heroes Trading Cards, each...

  by Jason Jude Chan

• News

  

  Flattening The World

  Mother Jones spent a year gathering, grouping, and evaluating our military activity around the globe for their massive (and ongoing) dossier,...

  by Jason Jude Chan

• News

  

  Look Out, World

  Why Vote? Reason 177 You should vote because John McCain and Barack Obama have very different takes on the global mess they'll be...

  by Thomas P.M. Barnett

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  Laptops of the World

  In inner-city Philadelphia, a pilot program is arming its high schoolers with laptops. But in countries like Norway-and increasingly in the...

  by Daniel Brook

• Culture

  

  "Heal the World" Helps Heal the World

  Tobias Greitemeyer, a psychologist at the University of Sussex, has a recent study showing that listening to music with "pro-social" lyrics like...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Intermission: What a Wonderful World

  For all its chasmic faults and cavorts with the brink, the world is undeniably, irrepressibly, wonderful.

  by Wylie Overstreet

• News

  

  America In The World

  Does the world like us? Do we care? Should we? James Surowiecki takes the pulse of the planet

  by GOOD, trujillopaumier

• GOOD Blog

  

  We Are The World

  Check out this very interesting way to see and manipulate graphical interpretations of the world's population. The easiest gleaned fun fact: Malta...

  by Anonymous

• GOOD Blog

  

  Give The World A Laptop

  The fight between Intel and Nicolas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child is heating up. If you haven't heard, OLPC has designed a very basic laptop...

  by Anonymous

• GOOD Blog

  

  World Cup Madness

  Ever since the good old U.S of A. was removed from contention in the World Cup, we haven't paid much attention, because, honestly, what's the...

  by Anonymous