
There is a new strain of tuberculosis. It is "virtually untreatable." Good news! You can justify your coming death from consumption by knowing that f it was good enough for Keats, it's good enough for you.

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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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GOOD's favorite sexually-active women share their sad, hilarious, and uplifting attempts to secure emergency contraception.
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At the 1939 New York World's Fair, despite a rapidly worsening global crisis, the focus was on the future. In particular, an exhibit called...
We always preferred Ari Fleischer's condescending not-answering to Scott McClellan's bumbling not-answering and, yet, here's to you, Scotty. Best...
The designer Evan Roth has developed a clever way to communicate with the T.S.A. employees who use X-Ray machines to inspect your carry-on...
Morning Roundup: From the Associated Press: RI school district agrees to rehire fired teachers A school district that gained the support of...
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Morning Roundup: From the Los Angeles Times: Cal State fights release of documents on Palin speech University seeks dismissal of suit, saying...
Our office kitchen is stocked with bananas. For now. It appears they might go extinct when a new strain of "Panama disease" reaches Latin...

A presidential catfight over telephones, technology and how to reward innovation.
After I.B.M. built a computer that could beat Garry Kasparov at chess, the next challenge was obvious: world domination Jeopardy! That's right,...

B Labs uses hard data to assess impact, rewarding results, not marketing. That's why so many B-2-B firms made the list.
Recently, the Environmental Defense Fund launched a campaign to encourage business owners to improve their corporate fleet efficiency....
Jeff Masters is a founder of and Director of Meteorology for the internet’s oldest– and my favorite– weather website. But before creating the...