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Do you remember when you were a child and pieces from your Lego sets would be inexplicably missing? This movie explains where they went.

The Antikythera mechanism, built around 150 B.C, has been recreated out of Lego, along with a cool (Lego) video showing how the ancient relic worked.

In this edition of the new business video series Green Room: how selling eyeglasses can fight poverty.

The model for the 141 Eyewear company is in its name: You buy one pair of their well-designed frames; they give a pair to someone who needs them.

Today, Lego celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, and we here at GOOD wanted to say congratulations. There are now 62 Legos for each human being on...
This. Is. Amazing. For those of us who love Legos AND general relativity, behold: the Lego Stephen Hawking.Via Kottke..
From The New York Times today, illustrator Christoph Niemann builds bits of New York out of LEGOs. Some favorites below. Full set here..
Hans Rosling, the charming Swedish professor behind the knowledge onslaught called Gapminder, explains where we're all going with a few Lego...

Future Planners of America can now get started early.
Thanks to LEGOs, hands-on STEM learning just got a lot more enjoyable.
A superb new teaser for One Day on Earth, a cinematic time capsule of the entire planet, shot in every country in the world on October 10, 2010.
This is part nine of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Richard...
Introducing Five Ideas, a collection of work from GOOD's favorite artists, illustrators, and designers. Some of the of the work you've probably...
Fantastic article in the new Atlantic, by urban theorist Richard Florida. We mentioned it the other day, but it's worth looking at again. It's...
In what is being touted as "a major step in bringing about a clean energy economy," a new coal plant in Utah was told it had to mitigate its...
Two years ago, Chris Paine, the writer and director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, purchased a mid-century modern house on a hillside in...
A new Pew report on the clean energy economy shows that these "green jobs" everyone's talking about were stealthily surging way before Van Jones...
Vampires get a lot of press these days, but you can't keep their undead brethren-the zombies-down. Despite lacking an air force and navy,...
At 8 feet 5.5 inches, Leonid Stadnyk has officially been named the World's Tallest Man by the Guinness Book of World Records. It's amazing, to be...
Need a break? If you've got the means, head over to England, where scientists at the University of Hertforshire have cobbled together a...
