
Check out the Reuters year in pictures (barring some major news event in the next two weeks). It's a nice way to zoom through the year in a few minutes. We picked this one, as it was, without a doubt, the most important shot of the year.

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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

Ten food stories you should read this year (or next year).

It was a record year for solar power, but we also had the Deepwater Horizon spill. A look back at the major events in energy in 2010.

From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.
The media loves a good story about how China has shed its old industrial ways and is leading the charge into a clean economy. We've even done it,...

See how social entrepreneurs are solving messy human problems in Kenya.

Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, Anne Trubek visits homes of greats from Poe to Twain to Hemingway, and the past smashes into the present.

Images from 350 eARTh, the worldwide climate art exhibition that's been called "the largest group show in the planet's history."

We received almost 250 submissions for our latest Los Angeles project. Here are the top 15. Vote for your favorite by Friday at noon.

Forty years ago this month, the Environmental Protection Agency sent photographers across the United States to document the state of the environment.

From the marquees of Hollywood to the bodegas of East L.A, we want to see the most beautiful and bizarre vintage signs that Los Angeles has to offer.

Visit Kawempe, a slum outside of Kampala, Uganda, where social enterprise is providing economic opportunity and fighting disease.
The photographer Marina Ekroos has a collection of lovely and clever photographs with each one depicting every step and ingredient of a given recipe.

Though several dozen of their countrymen were not as lucky, these two New Zealanders are unscathed in the wake of a giant earthquake.

The world's first planet-wide art exhibit viewed from outer space is underway. Climate change is the theme. Check out the art from 300 miles high.

It took him three years, but Niko Alm is finally allowed to celebrate his non-religion, "pastafarianism," in his driver's license.
From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.
Samy is in Bangkok—over 100 miles away from the one place he’s ever legally allowed to be. After Google Latitudes abruptly alerted me to the...

The state that brought you Lauren Conrad, the Black Eyed Peas, and gangster rap goes hard with education reform, too.