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Education
Poetry Slams Spur Student Literacy in the South Bronx
In the birthplace of hip-hop a local nonprofit is teaching a different kind of rhyming: the fine art of the poetry slam.
Education
Would a Laptop for Every Student Help? In Maine It Certainly Did
Since 2001, Maine's invested in laptops for every student. Now they're leading the world in tech education.
Lifestyle
Superb Idea: The Edible Pen
Do you chew on the end of your ballpoint pen? Designer Dave Hakkens does, so he came up with a fully-functional peppermint-flavored candy pen instead.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: Meet Christine, Studying at New York City's French Culinary Institute
GOOD's second Food Studies blogger is Christine, who chose to go culinary school to become a food writer—but then fell in love with cooking.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Your Complete 16-Course Tasting Menu
Your handy bookmark-able guide to the all-you-can-read extravaganza of ideas, stories, opinions, and proposals that was GOOD's Food for Thinkers week.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: When Music Writers Grow Up, They Become Food Writers
Food writing relies on sensory overload, music writing on linguistic agility, but both, Drew Tewskbury explains, communicate the invisible.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Writing About Numbers to Hack the Food System
Food + Tech Connect's Danielle Gould finds that writing is her most important tool to build a more transparent, data-driven food system.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Journalism at its Best
Paula Crossfield's compelling vision of a food journalism that can bring farmers and eaters together to share what does work and fix what doesn't.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Food Writing in the Age of the Internet
Annie Wang of Frites and Fries wonder what a food writer is to do, now that the internet has turned everyone into an expert?
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: An Online Festival of Food and Writing
Six days, 48 writers—from space archaeologists to music bloggers, plus everything in between—and one topic: what makes food so interesting?
Culture
Write Your Fears to Help Prevent Failure
Writing about your fears can help you conquer them, according to new research.
Culture
How They Wrote The Simpsons, by a Vintage Writer
A writer from The Simpsons' glory years tells how they made the classic episodes.
Design
GOOD Design Daily: Oliver Munday's Zany Vision for 826DC
Oliver Munday adds his unique voice to the visual language of 826, with the stunning new The Museum of Unnatural History storefront at 826DC.
Culture
io9 Is Offering $4,000 for Great Environmental Writing
Here's a rare chance to make some money writing-and impress Elizabeth Kolbert: io9's environmental writing contest.
Education
Making Pint-Sized Authors in Los Angeles with 826
826LA's Executive Director Joel Arquillos gives some perspective on how to teach Latino students and dishes some project-based learning tips.
Environment
The DBA 98 Biodegradable Pen
How many pens have you used in your lifetime? One hundred? One thousand? Ten thousand? (Maybe.) Most if not all of those discarded tubes of...
Culture
The 100 Best Magazine Articles Ever: An Ongoing Collaborative List [UPDATED]
Kevin Kelly just posted suggestions for the 100 best long-form magazine articles ever written (in English). Here are the top five so far (those...
Education
Teaching: A Lesson in Fortitude
How a student named Martin proved that first impressions are not always what they seem. A few years ago, I taught a low-income, first-generation...
