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3 weeks ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
Have you ever eaten 8,200 calories in a day? And if you did, what was on the menu? We get insight into what this might look like in a new installment from food writer Bennett Rea’s long-running series Cookin’ with Congress, in which Rea eats the same meals in a day as notable political figures.
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4 weeks ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
On June 1, Shepherdstown, West Virginia will get its first-ever Pride parade. It is organized by performer and activist Joan Marie Moossy, who moved to the town permanently from New York City in 2022 after years of being a part-time resident. Moossy, now 70, experienced queer activism and community throughout her time in New York, where she counted as mentors and friends the great avant-garde performer Ethyl Eichelberger and Gilbert Baker, creator of the Pride flag.
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
We’ve all felt it: that ice cream that’s just a little too cold, that popcorn that gets a little too stuck, that coffee that’s a little too hot. But how did such sensitivity in our teeth develop? Researchers at the University of Chicago have begun to develop an answer, and it’s not what you’d expect. What they found was that ancient fish were covered in small, bumpy structures that helped them traverse the ocean and avoid predators.
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
As a drag artist and activist for environmental and LGBTQ+ causes, Pattie Gonia has proved in the last few years that she’s a force to be reckoned with.
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
Educator Keldric Holmes has been chronicling his life as a second grade teacher on TikTok. In a recent video, which has gone viral with over 21M views, he spills the kinds of things his students share on a regular basis, which run the gamut from the personal to the ridiculous. “Let me tell y'all something,” Holmes says.
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
While in the U.S. you might see your fair share of men in suits driving to work, getting coffee, or riding the subway, in Japan you’ll also see them flying through the air, especially as Cheer Re-Man’s continue to make their mark. Cheer Re-Man’s is a Japanese all-male cheerleading squad made entirely of Japanese “salarymen,” as they’re known, which “includes all white-collar male employees, whether newly recruited graduates or seasoned middle-managers,” according to Venture Japan.
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
Imagine: you meet up with a friend and ask how they are, they respond, and suddenly…you have no idea what else to say. But, as many of us know, one of the most important parts of communicating is listening. What is your friend telling you that you might have missed? And how can you get the conversation back on track? Luckily, communications expert and YouTuber extraordinaire Vinh Giang has an answer.
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1 month ago | 
good.is | Elyssa Goodman
It started with a tease, a short little video of Miranda Gonzalez holding her beloved tuxedo cat, Holly. But it wasn’t a normal day. As No Doubt’s “Just a Girl” plays, Miranda carries Holly, attired in a crown and custom lace gown edged in sparkles. It was Holly’s quinceañera, the celebration of her 15th birthday. In another video that’s since gone viral with 5.4M views and 1.2M likes, Miranda shows Holly's entire cat quinceañera from start to finish.