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GOOD News: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 109 seconds You may recognize the pop stylings of GOOD News's musical guests, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, from their recent iPod Touch commercial. The Danish band just released their first EP, Around the Bend, to be followed early next year by a full-length recording. Catch them live in the GOOD News studio and (if you're in New York) tonight at Webster Hall. Related: the, asteroids, culture, galaxy, good, media, music, tour |
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Something Afoot in British Columbia Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 84 seconds This week and next, we're looking back at the lessons we've learned in 2008. Today's takeaway: if you want to survive, hide in a running shoe. Related: 2008, ashore, british, columbia, feet, good, lessons, news, numbers, roger, running, shoe, wash |
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The "B" is for Backwards Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 75 seconds This week we're looking back at the lessons we've learned in 2008. Today's lesson: the "B" is for backwards. Related: 2008, good, lessons, news, numbers, roger |
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GOOD News: Make Money, Not Bombs Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 124 seconds At a time when it needs cash to spend on various bailouts, the United States spends tens of billions of dollars to maintain a 5000+ weapon nuclear arsenal. Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares fund returns to GOOD News to make an economic argument for nuclear non-proliferation. Related: cirincione, economy, good, joe, news, non, nuclear, numbers, obama, politics, proliferation, roger |
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Casual Friday: The Dodos Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 116 seconds San Francisco band The Dodos have had a busy year. They released a new record, The Visiter, and followed it up with tours that took them around the country and to Europe. They're on their way to the Pacific Rim, but found time to stop in to the GOOD News studio for another edition of GOOD News 90 Second (Give or Take) Concert Series. Related: casual, culture, dodos, friday, good, media, music, news, numbers, roger |
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The Depression is Going to be Awesome Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 130 seconds So, we're in a recession: now what? Consumer spending is down and the common (wo)man has been forced to cut back. But there's no reason to go without. Phillip Torone, senior editor at MAKE, visits the GOOD News studio with tips for fashioning holiday gifts from outmoded computer equipment, in-case-of-emergency eyeglasses, and ways to drown out the groans of roving bands of zombies (what?). Related: depression, good, ingenuity, inventions, magazine, make, news, number, phillip, recession, roger, torone, zine |
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GOOD News: Quantum of Solace Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 121 seconds It's Casual Friday at GOOD News, and Roger Numbers is joined by film critic Daniel Holloway. This week, they watch the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, and muse on Agent 007's evolution from Roger Moore's 1970s swinger to Daniel Craig's darker, more complicated killer. Quantum of Solace opens today in theaters everywhere. Related: bond, culture, daniel, entertainment, good, holloway, james, movies, of, quantum, solace |
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I Think We Both Know Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 135 seconds This week and next, we're taking a look back at lessons we've learned in 2008. First up: whether or not you have ammunition, the important thing is to attack. Related: 2008, good, lessons, news, numbers, roger |
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Power Lunch Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 109 seconds President Bush hosts a lunch today at the White House for President-elect Obama and all the former presidents. Maybe afterwards they'll have an afternoon nap together in the Lincoln Bedroom. Related: barack, bill, bush, carter, clinton, former, george, good, jimmy, lunch, news, numbers, obama, presidents, roger |
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Behind Closed Doors Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 122 seconds On the eve of International Migrants Day, Nisha Varia from Human Rights Watch joins Roger Numbers in the GOOD News studio to talk about abuses of migrant domestic workers in Asia and the Middle East. Related: day, domestic, good, human, international, migrants, news, numbers, politics, rights, roger, watch, workers |
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GOOD News: Climate Change Changes Climate Change Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 149 seconds Turns out minerals in the ice that's melting off of Antarctica stimulate photosynthesis in plankton in the water, which in turn suck CO2 out of the air, decreasing greenhouse gases and slowing the global warming that melted the ice in the first place. We talk with geologist Rob Raiswell of University of Leeds about the finding. Related: antarctic, change, climate, good, iceberg, iron, nature, news, numbers, roger, science |
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There Are No Ugly Children in China Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 108 seconds This week we're looking back at lessons we learned in 2008. Today's lesson: there are no ugly children in China. Related: 2008, china, good, lesson, lip, news, numbers, olympics, roger, synch |
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GOOD News: My So Cold Life Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 107 seconds A study published in the December issue of the Journal of Biogeography reports that the polar South Orkney Island archipelago is teeming with fauna and boasts a greater number of unique species than the Galapagos Islands. Starfish in the Arctic: who knew? Dave Barnes, co-author of the study, calls in from the British Antarctic Survey. (Footage courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey) Related: antarctica, ecology, environment, good, islands, news, numbers, orkney, roger, science, south |
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GOOD News: Holloway and Numbers at the Movies Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 108 seconds Daniel Holloway of Us Weekly is back in the GOOD News theater with Roger reviewing two science fiction pictures released this week: Spanish indie thriller Timecrimes and Hollywood blockbuster Day the Earth Stood Still. Related: casual, daniel, day, earth, friday, good, holloway, movies, news, numbers, roger, still, stood, timecrimes |
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GOOD News Extra: Prohibit This! Sazerac Demo Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 115 seconds Who's that dapper mixologist in Ye Olde GOODE News Pub? Why, it's Floyd of Brooklyn's Weather Up, mixing up America's first cocktail, the Sazerac. Related: floyd, good, news, numbers, prohibition, repeal, roger, sazerac, up, weather |
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GOOD News: Happy Thanksgiving Posted by: RogerNumbers
Video duration: 106 seconds Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. What are you thankful for? Related: good, news, numbers, roger, thanksgiving |















