- November 29, 2006 • 3:24 pm PST
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LEGOs. The best toy ever. And, apparently, the largest tire manufacturer in the world. Small talk trivia, brought to you by GOOD. Enjoy.

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Do you remember when you were a child and pieces from your Lego sets would be inexplicably missing? This movie explains where they went.

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.

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...
From The New York Times today, illustrator Christoph Niemann builds bits of New York out of LEGOs. Some favorites below. Full set here..
Hans Rosling, the charming Swedish professor behind the knowledge onslaught called Gapminder, explains where we're all going with a few Lego...

Future Planners of America can now get started early.
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Who knew an AP physics project about some obscure cartoon could be so damn entertaining?

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In the Obvious Department, it turns out people who live in places with higher population density drive less. It's still pretty shocking how much...
We all like pretty people on magazine covers. Heck, we might even put a pretty person or two on our magazine. But, it's nice to know that with all...
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Fat, poor and stupid bad at taking standardized tests. Congratulations, South Carolina, you win..
Apparently, there is not enough on TV to stimulate the red-blooded 18-34-year-old American male. The solution: Bud TV. As in, Bud the beer, not...
Spinach was one thing, only crazy hippies eat that stuff. But now lettuce? Whoever is putting the e. coli in the vegetables really needs to cut...
Spinach was one thing, only crazy hippies eat that stuff. But now lettuce? Whoever is putting the e. coli in the vegetables really needs to cut...
Ash Singh wanted to find a way to "showcase turbans as an art form" and educate expatriated Sikhs on the potential for bold new turban stylings....
Ash Singh wanted to find a way to "showcase turbans as an art form" and educate expatriated Sikhs on the potential for bold new turban stylings....
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