The Rules Of: Talking About TV

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• Business

  

  What Mitt Romney Talks About When He Talks About Business

  Mitt Romney is on track to win the Republican presidential nomination as a businessman's businessman. What exactly does that mean?

  by Tim Fernholz

• Lifestyle

  

  How Gynecologists Talk—And Don't Talk—About Sex

  A new study examines how gynecologists and obstetricians talk about sexual activity with their patients—if they talk about it at all.

  by Amanda Hess

• Culture

  

  How Not to Talk When You Talk About Rape

  The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Culture

  

  They Wanted to Save Media, They Made Schmooru, the TV Un-Network for the Internet

  A band of talented young media makers formed a collective to make the content they (and you!) want. Here are a few highlights.

  by Alex Goldmark

• GOOD Blog

  

  Fora.Tv

  Are you a speech junkie? Do you like to get your info raw and soundbite free? Do you get irritated by news anchors that talk over live events...

  by Rudy Adler

• Issue 003

  

  Not TV

  Object lessons in HBO's sustained brilliance.

  by Jack Lechner, Anne Morreghan

• Environment

  

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Clean Energy

  Democrats and Republicans agree: clean energy creates jobs. But it makes no sense to support renewable energy without talking about climate change.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Environment

  

  Take Back My TV

  We like recycling. Sure, society's habits need to change in some fundamental ways to make life on earth truly sustainable, but disposing of our...

  by Andrew Price

• GOOD Blog

  

  Violent TV: Your Mom Was Right

  Check out this new study from Columbia Medical School. It seems to show that watching violent scenes in movies makes you more likely to get...

  by Andrew Price

• GOOD Blog

  

  Pitchfork.tv Is Live

  We need to spend some serious time with this before dolling out a proper evaluation-lest we rush to judgment and give it a 4.3 out of 10 or...

  by Patrick James

• GOOD Blog

  

  Digital TV Happens Today

  Our columnist Joel Johnson posted a few months ago, arguing that people needed to buck up and accept digital TV. It generated quite a bit of ire...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Lifestyle

  

  Are TV Dinners Really That Bad?

  What does this summer's Julia Child renaissance mean for our home cooking habits? Julia Child, the late cookbook author, public television...

  by Peter Smith

• Design

  

  Elegant TV Posters: Designed Without a Client

  The Austrian designer Albert Exergian loves three things: posters, modernism, and television. But seeing as he didn't have a client commissioning...

  by Patrick James

• Lifestyle

  

  Health Myths Debunked: TV Medicine

  Think you know medicine because you watch House and Grey's Anatomy? Well it turns out those shows don't get things quite right. Dr. Puya...

  by GOOD

• Culture

  

  Evidence: Dazed Expressions of Children Watching TV

  "Evidence" is a short film Godfrey Reggio—you might remember his Koyaanisqatsi—that focuses on the dazed expressions of children watching...

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Cathie Black Gives Her First TV Interview

  After scrupulously avoiding the media, the Bloomberg's designee for schools chancellor finally submits to a television interview.

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Lifestyle

  

  Day 22: Go Sweat Instead of Watching TV #30DaysofGOOD

  For October's challenge, we're asking you to get healthy, from your feet to your teeth to your brain.

  by Hillary Newman

• Culture

  

  Who Needs TV Recaps When We've Got Twitter?

  The new cultural criticism is crowdsourced and in real time.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• Culture

  

  Goodbye, Jersey Shore: TV Goes Highbrow

  We're living in the golden age of television.

  by Aminatou Sow

• Education

  

  Can Reality TV Really Make Over Failing Schools?

  "School Pride" premieres later tonight, applying the reality makeover model to something other than weight loss or home improvement. Will it work?

  by Alexandra Spunt