Ten years ago, GOOD published its first issue and launched a mission to improve underrepresented lives through storytelling. Around the same time, a former club promoter named Scott Harrison founded the non-profit organization Charity: Water with the goal of providing clean drinking water to developing countries. Reflecting on our own transformation over the years, we thought we’d …
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In this modern age of information, the inundation of often-conflicting health research can make sorting fact from fiction a mind-boggling task. Yet one thing is certain: humans from cultures across the globe generally love meat. In Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat, Marta Zaraska sets out to explore this global …
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If you’ve ever thought or talked about marriage, then you’ve likely heard (or even perpetuated) the belief that 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. Turns out that figure is far from correct, but it still gets passed around more often than the common cold. Though divorce rates peaked in the 1970s and early ‘80s, …
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When you’re vegan, fast food is rarely an option. What was once my favorite of the big chains, Wendy’s, has long been a forbidden zone—I can’t be sure the fries aren’t somehow sullied by beef fat or lard. Sure, I think wistfully about the 99-cent crispy chicken nuggets that I ingested almost daily in my …
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In a YouTube video recently shared by Macro Room, we get an up-close view of over-the-counter pills dissolving in water, revealing what actually happens when we consume pills while delivering a hefty dose of startling beauty. Macro Room, which aims to reveal “the hidden beauty of our world” through detailed videos, already has nearly 9,000 …
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You might soon be able to quit sticking jars of mayo in your roommate’s face and asking, “Does this seem okay to eat?” A piece of legislation called The Food Date Labeling Act would force companies to use clearer language when informing us of the “sell by” date on packaged foods, letting you know once …
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Click:plug valve supplier Improved restrictions on gun control will not happen today. Democrats and Republicans voted this afternoon on four measures meant to expand background checks for gun buyers and restrict gun sales to people on terror watch lists, but all of them fell short of the 60 votes necessary for passage. The two measures introduced …
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The solar system is a pretty exclusive club—fewer than 10 planets have ever been admitted to the collection of celestial bodies that make up Earth’s little neck of the galactic woods. Famously, in 2006 the most recently discovered member—sweet, icy little Pluto—was controversially demoted from the roster and downgraded to mere “dwarf planet,” leaving us …
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When an unarmed deaf man named Daniel Kevin Harris was killed by a state trooper near his Charlotte, North Carolina home last Thursday, his brother claimed the tragedy was just the latest in a series of “misunderstandings that led to him being afraid of the police.” Dealing with law enforcement can be an intimidating experience under even the best of circumstances. For …
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Bill Gates has a bit of egg on his face—after the Microsoft mogul pledged 100,000 chickens to a group of impoverished countries, one of the recipients cried foul. (fowl?) “He does not know Bolivia’s reality to think we are living 500 years ago, in the middle of the jungle not knowing how to produce,” César …
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