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Ryan Reed

Ryan Reed is a contributing writer for GOOD residing in Knoxville, Tennessee who specializes in stories on music and pop culture. He has contributed to Rolling Stone, Relix, Revolver, SPIN and The New York Times.

Photo credit: Canva, Shreshth Sharma from Studio India (left) / Darkmoon_Art from pixabay (right) – A sick cat in Morocco walked up to a vet office and found the ideal gig.

Animals

A sick cat in Morocco wandered up to a vet clinic and wound up with the perfect job

Ryan Reed

9/2/2025
Photo credit: Canva, pixelshot (left) and nicoletaionescu from Getty Images (right) – A scientist shared his surprise upon learning of a hiccup "cure" with a 92% success rate.

Science

Scientist ‘disappointed’ we have a 92 percent successful hiccup cure and nobody is talking about it

Ryan Reed

8/20/2025
Photo credit: Canva, Vadreams (left, cropped) / Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels (right, cropped) – A man earned an estimated $45,000 through recycling, saving up for a down payment on a house.

Money

Man in his 30s recycles nearly half a million cans to earn a down payment on a house

Ryan Reed

8/20/2025
Photo credit: Julio Enriquez via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, cropped (left) / Micahmedia via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, cropped (right) – In 2013, Prince borrowed someone's guitar—and then smashed it on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.'

Culture

Prince broke a borrowed guitar with a wild onstage toss in 2013. But the story ended well.

Ryan Reed

8/19/2025
Photo credit: Unidentified photographer for Michiganensian via Wikimedia Commons, public domain, cropped, with Canva text (left) / Bryan Ledgard via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, cropped (right) – John Lennon once wrote a fascinating letter to a then-obscure folk artist. It wasn't delivered for decades.

Culture, Music

John Lennon wrote a wise letter to an aspiring folk artist. It went undelivered for decades.

Ryan Reed

8/16/2025
Photo credit: Brittany.durdin via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International / Emily Wolfe Facebook – Emily Wolfe says an airline initially refused to pay for a guitar broken during a flight. But the story took a happy turn.

Culture

Airline backtracks after outrage for refusing to pay for working musician’s broken guitar

Ryan Reed

8/15/2025
Photo credit: Canva, Ron Lach from Pexels (left, cropped) / Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels (right, cropped) – These three films have the most incredible opening-credits sequences.

Culture

These 3 movies have the most brilliant opening-title sequences, according to critics

Ryan Reed

8/15/2025
Photo credit: painting attributed to John Taylor, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / Canva (via Africa images) for thought bubble, edited – Shakespeare's plays sounded a lot different back in his day.

Culture

Linguists found clues in Shakespeare’s plays to find out what they originally sounded like

Ryan Reed

8/15/2025
Photo credit: via Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic – Seth MacFarlane had interesting ideas about why TV and film have grown gradually darker.

Culture

Seth MacFarlane perfectly explains why there aren’t any hopeful characters in TV and film anymore

Ryan Reed

8/13/2025
Photo credit: Canva, whitedaemon from pixabay (left) / blackrancho (right) – A dog escaped the clutches of a coyote thanks to a savvy drone pilot.

Animals

Drone pilot helps missing dog escape from coyote in dramatic video

Ryan Reed

8/12/2025

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