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Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success – and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day…
Can You Teach Your Kids to Have Taste?
A skinny man with dreadlocks sits alone in a circle of light on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Bobby McFerrin decants a soft falsetto into a microphone, and in the seat next to mine, my 10-year-old son, Milo, tenses with delight. . . . I first heard that liquid sound strewn with percussive nuggets twenty years ago in a Village club; now I enjoy Milo’s fresh amazement. The kid has taste.
The New Gold War
After years of distancing itself from East Germany’s controversial sports legacy — and watching its haul of Olympic medals fall — Germany is rebuilding a network of Communist-style sport schools…
After the Bubble, Ghost Towns Across America
Dennis Pflueger and his wife won a rent-free year in a nice new house. But the Pfluegers are a bit lonely — just one other family lives in their subdivision…
Attenborough alarmed as children are left flummoxed by test on the natural world
Children have lost touch with the natural world and are unable to identify common animals and plants, according to a survey…
Train in Vain
Europe and Asia have figured it out, so why is the American rail system still so unspeakably awful? GOOD hops aboard a transcontinental train to find out…
Even Lamer Than Second Life
Google Lively, yet another pointless virtual world…
Read My License Plate: It Cost Me a Fortune
Ferrari S.p.A. says sales in the Middle East leapt 32% last year. BMW Group’s Rolls-Royce Motor Cars says the UAE, a country with a population of just 4.6 million, is now one of its top five global markets. All those expensive cars clogging the roads have given rise to another must-have status symbol: a prestigious license-plate number.
Cole Jeffrey
We are the pilgrims, the pioneers, the searchers. We are a country On the Road.
Joshua Carden
Well, at least it’s hold music. And maybe the whole Russian conspiracy thing.
Aaron Olmstead
Why Mom got roses and Dad will get jack.
Aaron D. McGarvey
Burning down the factory, disassembling the assembly line
Cole Jeffrey
You’re not your job. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are, however, a $150 IKEA sofa.
Christopher Newgent
I’m not writing this to say, “Look at me,” but to say, “Look at what we have to do.”
Samantha Gebert
Inside the mind of a woman that America had almost managed to forget.
Jennifer Carden
… to Virginia’s most belligerent private-property advocate.
Jennifer Carden
How “what do you listen to?” became the new “What do you do?”
Matthew Zehnder
Inside the mind of a closet consumer whore.
Alisa Harris
He’s a dead white man, already. Let’s get over him, ladies.
Christopher Newgent
The closest I’ve come to war is a map.
Jennifer Carden
Wipe your tears and grow some chest hair.
Kevan Gilbert
Along every wall, boxes were stacked to display the thousands of records within. This was mecca.
David Sessions
How shrill green politicization ended a history of environmental reverence in children’s film.
Dr. Les Sillars
Is the “hero” of the new McAvoy/Jolie/Freeman action flick just another sheep in wolf’s clothing?
John King
The song stuck in your head? This woman put it there.
Tim Raveling
The fourth and final installment of Kritik’s featured science fiction short.
Jake Melville
How I got gobsmacked by globalization.
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