Choosing the Right Electric Bike

Pedal with ease in Good Magazine's guide to electric-powered bikes

If you’re interested in biking to work, but not interested in arriving covered in sweat, posits Good, the electric bike might be for you. Electric bikes use batteries to ease the pedaling and give you that extra kick, much like biking downhill everywhere. They’re just the thing for a zero-emissions commute and escape from behind the wheel. However, the batteries and other features require an …

Shape the Hive

An online community platform shaping the future of art one pod at a time

An experiment in interactive digital collaboration, Shape The Hive invites people from around the world to create and submit individual artwork online that will be combined into a larger piece for an unexpected installation of enormous scale. The honeycomb-shaped project aims to connect artists by intentionally using the web—the very medium that often disconnects people—serving as both a platform for and reminder about the future …

William Burroughs Book Covers

An innovative bike, logo redesign exercises, light-triggered wallpaper, and more in our links of the week

1. An online catalog of William Burrough’s classic novels reveals the shifting cover art for each edition and reprint, an archive spanning 50 years.