David Ellis and Robert Carlos Lange made this inventive short film called "Liberty," in which a basket of trash becomes a musical...
The artists at Grosse8 and Lichtfront used an angular sculpture that looks like an abstraction from Robotech, four projectors, and two...
Yep, it's today. You see, 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitary units (toilets, clean water). WaterPartners International wants to...
It's not all stencils and posters. Over at Hyperallergic, Luna Park has compiled a great gallery of sculptural street art in New York City....
ReALIze, an immense new art project in downtown Los Angeles, uses speedbags as pixels to create a unique portrait of the champion boxer.
The Road to the Presidency Board Game: Rules of the Road
A semi-truck trailer transporting 12 million bees overturned yesterday on the Trans-Canada highway. Oops. The honey bees had been used to...
Last year, as some of you might remember, we assembled a board game for GOOD 005 called Polling and Rolling: a race through the presidential...
You've almost certainly been sent this chart or seen it on a blog (BoingBoing and Andrew Sullivan being the biggest culprits I've seen). Now...
How about securing your strawberries on top of a mountain?Here are five lesser-known local farmers' markets that look as juicy as the citrus.
In some New York buildings, a new bin will be showing up next to the trash and the recycling—a clothing donation bin.
Organizations frustrated by scarce resources, missed opportunities for collaboration, and the inability to conduct research are looking to mapping.
After the TSA pats you down, x-rays your undies, and dumps your liquids, at least now you don't have to pay $4 for bottled water.
You’d be hard-pressed to think of something more unfair than the life of a young refugee—especially one with no forthcoming prospects of...
Want to give the gift of cooking? Try the step-by-step recipes in What to Cook and How to Cook It. I'll be over for pie in an hour.
Bitcoins crashed and burned last year, but the digital currency is trying to mount a comeback.
Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, professor, and entrepreneur, has developed this thing called the Peepoo bag. It's a single-use toilet...
We had some fun pouring through the first stimulus bill. Turns out, all that effort was wasted, as there is a new bill that has been reconciled...
The death toll from Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine explosion last week has reached a total of 29 miners, the worst coal disaster in 40...
Infographics-and "information design" in general-are about as hot as they can get right now. So intentionally or not, Flickr user and ersatz...
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