Slate's Alex Chadwick interviews Hakim, a young man from Algeria who walked from New York City's Union Square to Los Angeles's Venice Beach with...
In today's New York Times, Steven Pinker gets his genome sequenced and wrestles with the information therein. He chooses not to learn whether he...
Prison Tycoon 4: SuperMax is a new video game that challenges users to build a profitable, privately run prison from the ground up.
Bored?...
The ACLU wants people to "Design the Restoration of America"...in poster form. The winning entry earns $500.
According to the Times of London,...
Thirty-six years ago today, the Apollo 17, the sixth and final manned mission to the moon, returned to Earth.
NASA is launching the "CO2...
-What did you want to be when you were just a wee pre-teen? Twelve-year-old David Fishman wants to critique restaurants for the Zagat Guide. A...
-A school in southern Afghanistan has an idea for overcoming the Taliban: Educating future generations so they will help the government develop...
-From the Christian Science Monitor: a nice overview of Obama's ambitious energy plan.
-A Bloomberg for Jerusalem? The BBC profiles the...
Beginning today, we'll be pointing you toward GOOD-approved stories, blog posts, graphics, and more around the web each morning. Have a look...
-Slate launched a new video series Wednesday called "Grand Unified Weekly," which serves up science news with a side of snark. You may...
-The California Supreme Court has agreed to review legal challenges to Prop 8. A hearing could come as early as March.
-Google is hosting a...
Months of flooding in the Santa Catarina area of Brazil have displaced more than 15,000 people; it's currently in a "state of...
Sean Bonner's network of blogs gives new meaning to the phrase "local news."
-Big news! The Sierra Club won a big case yesterday that effectively stops any new permits for coal power plants.
-Remember when it looked...
-Barack Obama posted the first of what's being billed as weekly YouTube addresses at 6 a.m. EST on Saturday. Should we expect a backlash from the...
A business writer crunched some numbers on the various bailouts for our crumbling financial sector. His assessment: They cost more than the...
You've heard that Canada's Parliament is going haywire but you're fuzzy on the details. Read this, and understand.
This nice piece of...
Obama is meeting with Al Gore in Chicago today. Did somebody say, "climate czar?" Or was it, "carbon tax?"
Speaking of a carbon tax, a New...
Shortly after receiving his award, the latest Nobel Peace Prize-winner, Martti Ahtisaari, advised President-elect Barack Obama to work quickly to...
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-a document as important as it sounds. Peter...
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"Meanwhile in Beastieville" by Sean Clarity is part of Gallery 1988 Los Angeles's current exhibit, "Under the Influence: The Official Art Tribute to Beastie Boys." "Meanwhile," sadly, has already sold, but the whole collection is a lot of fun.
