Archive: Apr 2012
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Happy Earth Day, Mitt!
Mitt Romney might be the country's No. 1 brownwasher, trying to cover up past greenery and blend in with the GOP crowd.
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Paper asks: Does high-fructose corn syrup contribute to a rise in autism?
New science suggests that the ubiquitous sweetener may interact with environmental factors -- such as exposure to heavy metals and pesticides -- to impact childhood development.
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Plants are secret geniuses
Annalee Newitz at io9 has collected 10 pieces of evidence that plants are smarter than you think, and it might make you look at your potted ficus in a new light. It turns out there’s reason to believe that plants can communicate, remember, recognize related plants, and measure time. Let’s hope nobody finds out they […]
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Website shows you your place in the universe (and yes, you are very very small)
The Scale of the Universe is a web-based Total Perspective Vortex that will make you feel very very small — or very very large — with the swipe of a mouse. You start at the scale of humans/dodos/giant earthworms, and from there you can zoom up to galaxies and down to quarks, or you can […]
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The weirdest, worst PR crap we’ve seen this Earth Day
Earth Day 2012 drops on Sunday, and it's more than just an opportunity to celebrate and protect our fragile blue marble. It's also a chance to shill lots of crappy products and services. Here are some of the weirdest.
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Top 10 ways Walmart is failing on sustainability
Walmart recently released a new Global Responsibility Report, but don't believe the hype.
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Did climate change cause the Salem witch trials?
A little ice age around the time of the 1692 Salem witch trials led to crop failures and shortages of fish, which put everyone in a mood to find a scapegoat, says a newly resurfaced 2004 Harvard thesis by economist Emily Oster.
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Super-polluted city tries to clean itself with smog-eating paint
Manila is one of the world’s five dirtiest cities, but graffiti? That’s not a problem. It’s not that people don’t paint on the walls in the hyper-polluted Philippines capital, because they do. But they do it with a paint that actually eats smog out of the air.
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Chair-dance-worthy indie rock video explains why plastics don’t have to suck
It's like Threadless and the Arcade Fire teamed up with BASF to talk about green chemistry and the threat of peak oil.