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EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has left the building
President Obama's lead environmental regulator leaves a record with some signal achievements but little headway on the biggest climate challenges.
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Pizza-flavored beer: Two great tastes that probably do not go great together
Locally produced pizza-flavored beer sounds less than reasonable. It sounds, actually, kind of gross.
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8-year-olds were right all along: It is possible to overdose on Brussels sprouts
Doctors are hoping to get the word out before it's too late: Brussels sprouts and blood thinner do not mix.
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German scientists have created perfect Christmas trees through cloning
The Germans have invented a perfect Christmas tree. It doesn't shed, it is perfectly symmetrical. It is like the second coming of Jesus, in tree form.
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Chicken farmers replace antibiotics with oregano oil
Oregano oil may be a natural solution to protecting chickens from germs without antibiotics, and also probably making them taste like pizza.
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Peer-to-peer bike share Liquid is like AirBnB for bicycles
Just search nearby for a friendly bike owner who's willing to rent out her bike for a few bucks an hour, and you're off and pedaling.
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Here is an elephant who thinks it’s an ostrich
It's OK, baby ostriphant, you will figure all this shit out eventually.
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These teeny, sparkly sequins are actually functional solar cells
They're just as efficient as normal solar cells, all while using one hundredth of the material that normal solar cells would.
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Sand sculpture of 500 Santa Clauses has an environmental message, somehow
Sculptor Sudarsan Pattnaik and thirty of his students carved 500 Santa Clauses (and one Jesus) into a beach in Puri, India.
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Grist List’s best bike stories of 2012
From a bike made out of cardboard to one that sounds like a horse, here are some of the year's most popular tales of two wheels.
