This video is in Portuguese, so just mute it and cue up a bit of old Ludwig Van as you watch sneaky monkey thugs infiltrate a Brazilian home. With humans perpetually up in their business, monkeys in Rio de Janeiro are fighting back by turning to a life of crime. This is no casual looting, either -- it's a monkey mob. The housebreaking simians have a signaling system (mimicking birdcalls) and a thoroughly orchestrated plan of attack. They're not quite backflipping through radar beams, but it's close.  LIke most things (especially crime sprees!) this is probably humans' fault, not for …

Walk Score has announced its 2011 list of most walkable cities, with a twist -- this year there's also a "fan favorite" category, where you can vote for what city you think is the easiest to navigate on foot. Walk Scores are based on how easy it is to walk to various amenties, like schools and grocery stores, but hey, why not add a purely opinion-based popularity contest? Then you know not only what cities are the most walkable, but what cities SEEM the most walkable to their citizens -- or, at least, what cities have citizens most likely to …

Max Temkin is a brand designer for, among others, Barack Obama. You can buy prints of this poster here, or at least you could until it sold out because it is f*cking amazing.

Linda Sharps (@Sundry) has preempted your need to check Weather.com for at least the next week or so.

Lest you think we were getting all worked up for no reason, here is some evidence that states should not be left to their own devices when it comes to making sure our water is clean.  A GAO report released yesterday found that states were underreporting or misreporting 84 percent of safe drinking water monitoring violations. What that means in practice is that the Environmental Protection Agency has no idea which places in the country need the most attention put on their water quality. Comforting! Let’s have more of that, please!

Okay, we know YOU ride your bike everywhere. But the country’s 4 million miles of roads, and 50,000 miles of interstate highway, probably aren’t going anywhere any time soon. Isn’t there anything productive we can do with this giant car playground? Well, we can cover it with solar photovoltaic panels, so it’s at least providing some energy. Oregon's already testing the idea, installing panel arrays along highway shoulders. Others want to embed the solar panels directly into the road surface, and have already received funding to test the idea. California wants to try it along parts of Route 101. If …

Think poop is funny? Well, it’s DEADLY SERIOUS. Here are the unsavory facts about poor sanitation infrastructure, according to the Gates Foundation: 2.6 billion lack access to safe toilets. Food and water that's come in contact with waste leads to 2.5 billion cases of diarrhea in children each year, and 1.5 million of them die as a result. People with diseases connected to poor sanitation fill half of the hospital beds in the developing world. So the Gates Foundation is trying to polish this turd by developing the next generation of toilet. If you watch the video above (which you …

The producer of Transformers is backing a live-action Captain Planet movie, which will teach children about environmentalism and green mullets and the periodic table of elements (earth, air, fire, water, and heart!). Next can we do a live-action G.I. Joe Knowing is Half the Battle movie? Because it will be just as fun. Climate change could lead to conflicts so contentious the U.N. might need a separate peacekeeping force to deal with them. Climate denier Lord Monckton also doesn't believe in the House of Lords' right to tell hereditary peers like him that they're not members of the chamber, even …

By the end of this century, it's likely that at least a handful of island nations will find out what it means to become a "deterritorialized" state, writes Rosemary Rayfuse in the Times. When the last bit of Nauru, or Tuvalu, or Kiribati disappear under the waves, it will be a double whammy for their displaced citizens, who could lose control of the vast maritime zones extending from their shores. By law these zones, rich in fish and other natural resources, can extend for hundreds of miles from the shores of a sovereign nation.  In addition to losing their homes, …

The tagline on this advertisement for German Atomic Forum ("founded in 1959 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy in Germany") is "CO2 Emissions = Zero." See how they did that? They put the nuclear power plant behind some windmills and farmland, and it's a beautiful, clear day! In your mind, you're like "nuclear power, that's as German as female prime ministers and sound fiscal planning." First, it's worth noting that wind farms are now the de-facto symbol of all that is good and right in the world of energy. Score. And second, it's worth noting that new nuclear …