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A diverse group of sharp and fun pieces that delve into culturally relevant issues and stories of the moment through investigative, photo, and new journalism.
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Technology
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Witness Video Hub
The Witness Video Hub is helping people document human rights abuses when YouTube and governments don't cooperate. Plus Big Thinker Sushmita Ghosh. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 24 2008
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Technology
1 vote
Useful Void
Harvard professor Viktor Mayer-Schöenberger thinks the internet should learn to forget. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 23 2008
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Technology
5 votes
TED Effect
The network of thought leaders, donors and corporations behind the TED conference's audacious projects. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 22 2008
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Environment
1 vote
Museum of Nature
If there's an upside to global warming, it's that we've finally come to appreciate how real our connection to the environment is. Plus Big Thinker Jelly Helm. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Ilkka Halso
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 17 2008
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Mobility
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Zeppelins, Luxury
Things are about to get a lot more fashionable in the world of giant gas-filled floating transports. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 16 2008
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Science
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Quantum Hippies
Quantum mechanics and Ayahuasca-induced hallucination: together at last. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 15 2008
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Technology
2 votes
Killer Robots in Iraq
This fall a thousand new fighters started shipping out to Iraq. They were robots, mind you, not people. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 14 2008
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Politics
9 votes
Most Likely to Secede
When it comes to the Union, a small but growing cadre of Vermonters want out. Christopher Ketcham examines the rise of the Green Mountain state secessionists. — read more
Contributors: Christopher Ketcham and Sarah Schorr
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 10 2008
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Politics
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Jerusalem, Division of
Israeli officials have floated the idea of ceding control of the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem to Palestinian authorities. It may be a step toward a more peaceable solution. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 09 2008
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Politics
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Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Some African leaders use their power to enrich their countries. Others use their power to enrich themselves. How to measure which leaders have done the best? — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 08 2008
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Technology
2 votes
Spore
Spore is putting the nerdy stuff back into video games. Plus Big Thinker Nicholas Negroponte. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 07 2008
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Politics
2 votes
Human Terrain System
The Pentagon is bringing social scientists to the battlefield. Plus Big Thinker Samantha Power. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 04 2008
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Media
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YouPorn
It was only a matter of time before the addictive convenience of YouTube extended to that other thing we love about the internet. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 03 2008
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Education
4 votes
Encyclopedia of Life
A new web-based zoological catalogue will store information about every single plant and animal on earth. Plus Big Thinker Wendy Kopp. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Jan 02 2008
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Mobility
2 votes
DeLorean Revival
The DeLorean has returned from ignominy. Plus the Big Ideas Graveyard. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 21 2007
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Health
3 votes
Gum, Easily Removable
The gum stuck-on-shoe/in-hair/to-your-stoop nightmare now has an antidote. Plus Big Thinker Mario Batali. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 21 2007
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Environment
13 votes
Paper Saving
A single setting in Microsoft Office wastes a small state's worth of trees every year. Plus Big Thinker Cameron Sinclair. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 20 2007
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Science
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Large Hadron Collider
This $6 billion, 16-mile-long particle accelerator might help us understand the fabric of reality. Plus other Literally Big Ideas. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 19 2007
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Culture
2 votes
God, Without the Fuss
The head of the nation's largest church preaches a self-help Gospel to millions of people. Thomas Golianopoulos find's out what's behind pastor Joel Osteen's smile. — read more
Contributors: Thomas Golianopoulos
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 17 2007
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Technology
3 votes
X Prize
The X Prize shakes gives stagnant industries a shot of entrepreneurial innovation. Plus Big Thinker Peter Diamandis. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 17 2007
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Environment
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Nuclear Energy Goes Green
Policymakers and environmentalists are reconsidering the nuclear option. Plus Big Thinker Lawrence Lessig. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 14 2007
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Health
3 votes
VeriChip
The VeriChip has been FDA-approved for human implantation but civil liberties advocates are worried. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 13 2007
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Media
1 vote
Famous People Sell Magazines
We're won over by conventional newsstand wisdom. Sort of. Plus Big Thinker Danny DeVito. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine and Johanna Goodman
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 10 2007
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Magazine
6 votes
What's the Big Idea? with Danny DeVito
Making the Issue 008 cover with Danny DeVito. — read more
Contributors: Lindsay Utz, Supermarché, Die Romantik, Henry Joost, and Ariel Schulman
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 10 2007
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Art & Design
4 votes
Jonathan and the Whale
Jonathan Harris chronicles an Inupiat whale hunt in 3,214 photos. In the process he may have reinvented how we tell stories. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 05 2007
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Culture
1 vote
Coin Flipping Isn’t Fair
According to Stanford statisticians, coins may not be as fifty-fifty as we think. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 03 2007
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Politics
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Baby Bonds
Giving every baby in America a $5,000 bond might not be such a crazy idea after all. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 03 2007
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Science
3 votes
Ark, Lunar
The Alliance to Rescue Civilization has a plan to do just that in case an asteroid threatens earth. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 03 2007
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Magazine
8 votes
Big Ideas!
GOOD presents an alphabetical list of the people and ideas that will shape your future. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Dec 03 2007
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Politics
6 votes
Russian Gambit
Garry Kasparov tells Christopher Bateman about his stratagem to take over in the Kremlin. — read more
Contributors: Christopher Bateman
008: Big Ideas! - Nov 30 2007
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Environment
2 votes
Buy Now, Pay Later
Can a new trend right our environmental wrongs? Adam M. Bright scrutinizes the practice of carbon offsetting. — read more
Contributors: Adam M Bright
008: Big Ideas! - Nov 30 2007
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Magazine
3 votes
GOOD Q&A: Bill Drayton
Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, is urging global citizens to become global change-makers. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Nov 28 2007
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Magazine
5 votes
GOOD Q&A: Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, wants us to get away from the T-shirt-slogan approach to charity. — read more
Contributors: GOOD magazine
008: Big Ideas! - Nov 27 2007
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