Picture Show: Real Life Super Heroes

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• Lifestyle

  

  Video Series: Ghana in Real Life

  Compelling mini-docs show the everyday struggles in the lives of Ghanians.

  by Ann Marie Gardner

• Culture

  

  How To: Be a Real Life Superhero (With or Without the Cape)

  So you want to make the world a better place? Maybe start with your block, or your neighborhood. Maybe start with an awesome costume. You don’t...

  by Rebecca McQuigg Rigal

• Culture

  

  Picture Show: The Great Western Alpaca Show

  Every spring, The Great Western Alpaca Show brings breeders, buyers, sellers, and just plain enthusiasts of the noble beast that is the alpaca...

  by GOOD

• Environment

  

  BioBus: A Real Life Magic School Bus Brings Science to You

  While it may not have the flight capabilities of the Magic School Bus-or the eccentric, red-haired Ms. Frizzle at the helm-Ben Dubin-Thaler's...

  by Alicia Capetillo

• Picture Show

  

  Picture Show: Pictures of the Year

  For 67 years, Pictures of the Year International has awarded excellence in the field of photojournalism, highlighting the photographers whose...

  by Patrick James

• Technology

  

  The Riots' Hipster Hero: Saving the Day with a Fixed-Gear and a Twitter Feed

  As his hometown of Bristol burned, 21-year-old Leon Piers took to his bicycle and his computer to help bring calm to the streets.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Design

  

  GOOD Pictures: Life on the Commuter Train

  Winter's portraits speak to the diversity of they people who commute every day, and leave us wondering about people's lives outside the train.

  by Edward Winter, Jen Mizgata

• Environment

  

  New Documentary Shows Real Faces of Climate Change

  The climate change debate has a range of public faces, from celebrities to scientists to politicians to right wing radio hosts. For the subject of...

  by Alicia Capetillo

• Design

  

  GOOD Pictures: John Jones and Life's Little Details

  John Jones focuses on the sweet details of everyday life.

  by John Jones, Jen Mizgata

• Design

  

  Picture Show: Traffic!

  The French writer and philosopher Jean Baudrillard once wrote of the freeways of Los Angeles as being "ideally suited to the only truly profound...

  by GOOD

• Culture

  

  Picture Show: The Garden

  Over the last few years, urban gardening has grown increasingly more prominent-as an emblem of demand for healthier, more natural food; as a...

  by GOOD

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  Picture Show: 500 Years

  For five centuries, the residents of Potosi, Bolivia, have lived and died in the mines of Cerro Rico, or "rich mountain." The name, one could...

  by GOOD, Evan Abramson

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  Picture Show: The Harvest

  The ongoing battle between medical marijuana advocates and law enforcement has begotten some tricky legality, which has lead to all sorts of...

  by GOOD, Mathieu Young

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  Picture Show: Breach

  In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living...

  by GOOD, Richard Mosse

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  Picture Show: Free Again

  Crime and punishment. Rehabilitation and reform. Correctional facilities. We use these phrases when we talk about prison, but the distance between...

  by GOOD

• Culture

  

  Picture Show: Skateistan

  Those of us in the Western world probably imagine of Afghanistan more in terms of soldiers and bombs than skaters bombing hills. Last summer,...

  by Patrick James, Noah Abrams

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  Operation Paydirt Picture Show

  Like thousands of Americans, the artist Mel Chin traveled to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to see how he could help. However, once...

  by GOOD

• Design

  

  Picture Show: Guantanamo Bay

  For nearly three years, Christopher Sims made phone calls and sent letters to various military personnel in order to gain access to the military...

  by GOOD, Christopher Sims

• Design

  

  Picture Show: Google This

  Taking our ubiquitous searches to the physical world The Brazilian Italian artist Filippo Minelli wrote to us about his interest in "exploring...

  by GOOD

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  Picture Show: Waste Management

  Recycling is nothing new, but few among us have seen what happens to our plastic, paper, metal, and glass once it departs from our blue, curbside...

  by GOOD, Mathieu Young