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Obama vs. physics: Why climate change won’t wait for the president
Climate change is not a fight, like abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It's a fight between human beings and physics.
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Promised Land, a movie review
Promised Land, the new movie starring Matt Damon, is a movie in part about fracking, the new and extremely problematic way of getting natural gas out of shale rock far below the earth’s surface. It’s a very good movie, with good acting, particularly by Damon in a very different role than, for example, his Jason […]
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The bizarre and fascinating history of lead in gasoline
The story of how lead got in gasoline -- and stayed there for decades -- is endlessly fascinating.
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The next space shuttle could be made out of trash
Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center have devised a trash compactor that turns waste into 8-inch radiation-shielding tiles.
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Here’s an airport entirely filled with cars wrecked in Hurricane Sandy
After Hurricane Sandy, Insurance Auto Auctions Corp. found itself with an overload of damaged cars. The company had to store them somewhere.
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The fight over lead: It’s like all pollution fights rolled into one
We could be learning a lot from the fight to clean up lead pollution. But we're not.
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Concord, Mass., is the first city to ban plastic water bottles
The ban comes as the result of a three-year fight from local activists, who are quite understandably appalled that Americans use 1,500 bottles every second.
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This nursing home cheers up patients with therapeutic llamas
Hanging out with animals lowers blood pressure, increases serotonin, and just generally makes patients feel better about the world. The llamas probably don't mind it either.
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Soda Drinker Pro is the most advanced soda drinking simulator ever created
Finally, a video game that makes use of your real-world skills! Like drinking giant sodas constantly.
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Indonesian city orders women to stop straddling bikes
We're not even going to ask what the situation might be with recumbent bikes or unicycles.
