
Men are in a recession. Women are not. Can that be true? According to BusinessWeek, yes.
To be fair, Peter Coy qualifies his initial assertion just enough to basically refute it, but there's a wealth of interesting discussion along the way.

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GOOD Pictures: Go Outside
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

We're a third of the way into the GOOD month-long "no soap" challenge, and we're not stinky at all. Hypothesis confirmed, so far.
In Turin, Italy, the Gifts Without Money-or, if you prefer, Regali Senza Moneta-initiative has transformed a marketplace into a money-free zone,...

We've reached the end of our attempt to go vegetarian and vegan. Find out how we, and the GOOD community, did.
The iPad better watch its back. According to an article on Motherboard, a U.K.-based company has developed the portable computer for the future: a...

Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: Many New York Districts Say No Visa, No School Civil liberties advocates have unsuccessfully asked...

In a heart-warming display of the power of the internet, the homeless man with the golden voice from yesterday's viral video now has job offers.

All you can say is 'wow.' Watch a drunk Frenchman open a bottle of wine—with a shoe.
Clowns Without Borders imports humor to some of the world's most dangerous places
GOOD’s favorite fictional neighborhoods Appears in: Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck. The neighborhood is arguably the main character in this...
Mark Kurlansky's new book revives an abandoned WPA writers project. Food journalism almost always focuses on the ideal instead of the...
Jon Lombardo was surprised by the grooming customs at his local Shanghai gym. He and six other expats in China share their experiences.
The complete antithesis of the rural idyll that many might associate with farming, the 4-1/2 acre Alemany Farm is located just off the decidedly...

Helicopter parenting may be coming in for a landing as more and more parents are embracing a growing movement to restore play.
Landscaped Crusaders It may sound like an obscure office of the United States government, but the Center for Land Use Interpretation is in fact...
This is the second post in The Back Garden Project, one GOOD community member's effort to turn a neglected corner of the city into a thriving...

Another update to the Oxford English Dictionary designates L.A. as "a state of being out of touch with reality."

Climate meddling by humans started a long time ago. Watch the human impact on the planet's land cover over the past 8,000 years.

Reinventing the Outdoors contest: Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists director Brian Vance talks about how mountain biking should coexist with nature.

150 years ago, the government founded land-grant universities to keep agriculture alive in the U.S. What should they be teaching today?

A Tanzania-based nonprofit that trains rats to sniff out land mines is seeking to expand to Thailand.