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• Design

  

  Nike Print Pack: Shoes Made from Old Magazines

  Maybe there's life for print publications after all. Or at least an afterlife. Nike has released a set of shoes made from old glossies.

  by GOOD

• Culture

  

  Library's "Living Books" Program Will Loan Human Experts

  At the new library in Surrey, British Columbia, people can "check out" experts on a topic of interest.

  by Megan Greenwell

• Culture

  

  At Toronto's Human Library You Check Out People, Not Books

  Inspired by "living libraries" around the world, Toronto's Human Library allows you to check out a person for 30 minutes and "read" their life story.

  by Theo Schell-Lambert

• News

  

  'Books Are Speech': Why the OWS Library's Destruction Is So Upsetting

  For Occupy Wall Street supporters, crushing a library felt like crushing the collective imagination.

  by Amanda Marcotte

• Design

  

  How Books Were Made

  This book-binding video is heartwarmingly wonderful. You can watch after the jump. Via Core77.

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  New York Public Library Leaving 25,000 Copies of Centennial Book in Public Places

  The special centennial book, featuring pieces from Stephen Colbert among others, will be left around New York for people to pick up and share.

  by Liz Dwyer

• GOOD Blog

  

  Chair/Desk

  It's a chair. It's a desk. It's so confusing.Via Treehugger

  by Anonymous

• News

  

  How to Watch the Inauguration From Your Desk

  Here are some links, and here are some others..

  by Zach Frechette

• Lifestyle

  

  Day 6: Work at a Standing Desk #30DaysofGOOD

  For October's challenge, we're asking you to get healthy, from your feet to your teeth to your brain.

  by Hillary Newman

• Education

  

  Desks in the Hallway: A Texas School Takes Learning Out of the Classroom

  Hallway learning stations prove that learning can happen at any time and in any place.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Culture

  

  Longshot Magazine: Made in 48 Hours, Made at GOOD

  A few months ago, we reported on 48 Hour Magazine, a project conceived by three San Francisco writers in which writers, editors, illustrators...

  by GOOD

• Lifestyle

  

  Food For Thinkers: Old Mr. Flood and a Boston Breakfast of Cod's Cheeks, Tongue, and Flotation Bladder

  Joseph Mitchell's Old Mr. Flood is Peter Smith's pick for the best piece of food writing ever. Why?

  by Peter Smith

• Culture

  

  The 10 Best Books on ALA's Banned or Challenged Books List

  In celebration of Banned Books Week, we count down our 10 favorite books on the American Library Association's banned or challenged books list.

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  GOOD Books: Cynical Children's Books Written for Adults

  These snarky children's books, written for disillusioned grown-ups, are full of sarcasm, gore, and curse words sure to brighten your day.

  by Jillian Anthony

• Lifestyle

  

  New Book Figures Out the Carbon Footprint of Everything

  How Bad Are Bananas looks into the carbon footprint of everything from toilet paper to being cremated.

  by Peter Smith

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  The Book Liberator: Taking a Page from Every Book, Literally

  You're forgiven if you've never thought of a book as being stuck inside its own covers. A few years ago, TV still lived in a box (which was still...

  by Theo Schell-Lambert

• GOOD Blog

  

  Libraries, Then And Now

  The gentlemen over at Freakonomics pose a fascinating question. Imagine if libraries did not exist. Somehow, we had missed out on the whole...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Design

  

  Google-Age Public Libraries

  Slate's architecture critic Witold Rybczynski takes a look at the new approaches to designing central city public libraries in an intriguing...

  by Daniel Riley

• Cities

  

  Portland's Enviable Tool Libraries

  Well, Portland does it again. It's now the first city to have three tool libraries. A tool library, for those who are new to the idea, is exactly...

  by Andrew Price

• Cities

  

  The Future of the Library: Urban Mediaspace

  You'd think that with the advent of ubiquitous digital media, the old brick-and-mortar library would go the way of the video rental store. But...

  by Andrew Price