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good.is — More often than not, if you want to find a good restaurant, you're going to Yelp it. While the individual reviewers may not be the most charming, in aggregate, they're changing the restaurant market, creating new business for well-reviewed companies and cutting into the market share of chains.

good.is — The Bike Nation series is brought to you in partnership with CLIF Bar. This spring, bike sharing came to South by Southwest for the first time in the festival's history-something of a late arrival, given the crowd that assembles in Austin every year.

good.is — The Bike Nation series is brought to you in partnership with CLIF Bar. This spring, bike sharing came to South by Southwest for the first time in the festival's history-something of a late arrival, given the crowd that assembles in Austin every year.

good.is — For our fifth event of 2012, GOOD Ideas for Cities is headed to Dallas. GOOD Ideas for Cities taps creative problem-solvers to tackle real urban challenges proposed by civic leaders and present the solutions at live events across the country.

good.is — Stroll through any arcade, and you'll spot at least a few teenagers grooving to electronic beats on one of those Dance Dance Revolution consoles. A new partnership wants to take advantage of that DDR craze-which is more than a decade old and still going strong-to keep kids healthy.

good.is — Egypt's televised presidential debate earlier this month, widely lauded as an indicator of democracy's triumph in the region, was delayed when one candidate was reportedly caught in traffic. On Twitter, CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman offered one of the night's most winning observations: "No matter who is running [for president], #cairotraffic always wins."

good.is — The Bike Nation series is brought to you in partnership with CLIF Bar. When I lived in "bike-friendly" Washington, D.C.-the 68-square-mile District is painted with 48 miles of bike lanes-I rode my bike to work almost every day. My commute was often punctuated with contentious interactions with pedestrians and drivers.

good.is — Every year, the world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. That's about 33 percent of all food produced annually. In rich nations alone, 222 million tons of food is lost by consumers outright throwing it into the garbage.

good.is — The body of evidence has mounted over the past decade: Having children doesn't make people happy. And yet researchers continue to launch new studies, tinker with the variables, shift the demographics, crunch the numbers another time. It's almost as if the previous results are not so much scientifically invalid as they are socially unacceptable.

good.is — After two years of intentionally losing money in a very smart way, a Mexican cell phone company is set to change the way the country's consumers use mobile phones to access the internet. If their plan works, it could transform not only the Mexican phone industry, but consumer finance systems in developing countries around the globe.

good.is — We're working with Slava Menn and Brad Geswein, the founders of Gotham Bicycle Defense Industries, to create a new piece of urban biking gear. Unlike most products, this one is being developed from beginning to end by the people who will use it. Our network of urban cyclists are helping us decide everything from design to name.

good.is — The Bike Nation series is brought to you in partnership with CLIF Bar. We realize it's not always easy for cyclists, drivers, and pedestrians to share the road. So we made a short 'n' sweet PSA to remind us all to calm down as we travel from point A to B.

good.is — When London-based broadcast journalist Ellie Jeffery was diagnosed with breast cancer that had spread to her lungs, liver, and bones, she was told she had only months to live. Not one to give up, Jeffery demanded a second opinion and started working on beating the cancer.

good.is — The body of evidence has mounted over the past decade: Having children doesn't make people happy. And yet researchers continue to launch new studies, tinker with the variables, shift the demographics, crunch the numbers another time. It's almost as if the previous results are not so much scientifically invalid as they are socially unacceptable.

good.is — Today, Facebook will launch the largest initial public offering in history. Over the course of a few minutes, an eager public will invest $16 billion in Facebook's 3,000-odd employees. Here in Nairobi, Kenya, where I live, the eye-popping figures produce passive astonishment: A single company will absorb the rough equivalent of half a year's GDP for Kenya's 40 million citizens.

good.is — We rounded up some real-world post-grad tips from our favorite young successful smarties.

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good.is — In college, I pledged to spend three days Master Cleansing, subsisting on only lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup. Thirty-six hours later, I remembered that pizza exists. I've since resisted the celebrity campaigns by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek to counteract my alcohol and 3 a.m.

tedxuchicago.maker.good.is — As a professional feminist and a mom, I often get questions on how I was able to raise a girl, who will soon turn nine, in today's princess-ified society, who did not go through a full-fledged princess phase. When most pre-school girls were refusing to take off their tiaras and gowns, my daughter was doing everything else a young child does.