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• Technology

  

  Olympic Medals Made out of Recycled Electronics

  Apparently this isn't breaking news, but was to me, and is very cool: A Canadian company has found a way to source gold, silver, and bronze out of...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• News

  

  National Anthem Quiz

  The Olympics will start tomorrow. Once people start winning medals, you will hear a lot of national anthems, especially Scandanavian anthems. To...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Environment

  

  If Tokyo Gets the Olympics, They'll Build This Thing

  Who cares what Obama and Oprah think? If Tokyo gets the 2016 Olympic games, they'll build this stadium powered entirely by the sun. In fact,...

  by Andrew Price +

• News

  

  Obama Flies to Copenhagen to Lobby for Olympics; Will He Do the Same for Climate Change?

  Quick poll: President Obama is indeed flying to Copenhagen to lobby on behalf of the city of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic games. Will he...

  by Patrick James +

• Design

  

  Spontaneous Architecture Challenge: the Olympics

  GOOD has teamed up with PRE and Studio X to inspire designers through the monthly Spontaneous Architecture competition. This month, we want you to...

  by GOOD, Gavin Browning, preoffice +

• Transparency

  

  Alcohol Olympics

  Drinking has always been a mainstay of human civilization. In moments of joy, sadness, boredom, and even holiness, we drink. But what? And...

  by GOOD, Jon Miller, Simon Hawkins, Amrit Richmond, Pamela Littky, Paria Pear, Melissa Hunter, Chris Weller, Squeak E. Clean, Max Joseph +

• News

  

  Obama 0 for 1 on Trips to Denmark

  Obama's last-minute trip to Copenhagen to appeal to members of the Olympic Committee to pick his hometown (and, you know, U.S. city) has failed,...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• Business

  

  Super Bowl: The Numbers

  The Super Bowl is an advertising bonanza, a snack food orgy and-oh yeah-a football game. An original GOOD Video..

  by admin, Tom Van Buskirk, Eve Marson, Max Joseph, Chris Weller +

• Culture

  

  Dodgeball

  Anyone who remembers childhood as a time of innocence and joy was never on the wrong side of a dodgeball. If you ever packed a few extra...

  by MacKenzie Fegan, Dave Nardone, MacKenzie Fegan, Jeffrey Peixoto, Morgan Currie, Labour, Zach Dundas, Lindsay Utz, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Audio Dregs Recordings, Jody L +

• Culture

  

  Urban Golf

  Certain personal attributes can be advantageous in particular sports. In basketball, height helps. For sprinting, fast twitch muscle fibers...

  by MacKenzie Fegan, Joe haege, Todd Bieber, MacKenzie Fegan, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Zach Dundas, Labour, Morgan Hobart, Nate Goodman, jsauce, Dave Nardone, Grace Jackson +

• GOOD Events

  

  826LA Paddleboat Regatta This Sunday: Support GOOD

  For one day a year, the normally serene waters of Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles host a fierce, world-class competition: the 826LA Paddleboat...

  by Max Schorr +

• Environment

  

  Greener Pastures

  Water-hogging, pesticide-laden golf courses occupy more than 2.3 million acres of United States green. Thanks to pressure from environmentalists,...

  by Dan Washburn +

• Culture

  

  Celebrating the Courage of Michael Vick

  From the "seriously?" department: Last night, the NFL bestowed the Ed Block Courage Award on 32 players-each team nominates a player-including a...

  by Patrick James +

• News

  

  Cambodian Sports

  Decades of war and internal strife have left Cambodia with one of the highest proportions of people disabled by land mines in the world. The...

  by GOOD, Stefan Lovgren, Michael Schaubach, Erik Winkowski, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, MacKenzie Fegan, Danielle Flug, Daniel Milder +

• Culture

  

  English Soccer Fans Are Revolting

  As England's best soccer teams face crippling debt, its fans have come up with some surprising ways to liven up the game-their own...

  by Zach Dundas +

• Design

  

  Adult Soap Box Derby

  Before there was NASCAR, there was box car. Soap box derbies, at the peak of their popularity in the 1950s, provided all-American kids with an...

  by MacKenzie Fegan, Dave Nardone, Colin Brown, Zach Dundas, MacKenzie Fegan, Lindsay Utz, Labour, Morgan Currie, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Audio Dregs Recordings, Nate Goodman +

• Culture

  

  Trophy Size

  GOOD and Catalogtree look at the sizes and weights of some coveted trophies from the worlds of sports, entertainment, and politics.

  by GOOD +

• Transparency

  

  Transparency: Who Is Playing Sports?

  It's baseball season again, but what you might not notice amid the crack of the bat and roar of the crowd is that-a half-century after Jackie...

  by GOOD, Kiss Me I'm Polish +

• Culture

  

  Transparency: The Tree of Sports Mascots

  Basketball and hockey have just wrapped up exciting playoffs, baseball is in full bloom, and football training camps are starting soon. It's a...

  by GOOD, Always With Honor +

• Issue 011

  

  The Antidrug Lord

  Tom Siebel keeps kids off meth by pushing shocking ads.

  by Corey Binns, Jen Dessinger +