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British charity is recycling ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ as toilet paper
Fifty Shades of Grey, for the uninitiated, is a madly popular, rather trashy book in which a young woman has an affair with an older businessman.
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Colorado’s Community Solar Program Allots 9 Megawatts in 30 Minutes
When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the high upfront cost of a complete system, the potential solar universe shrinks further. That changes with “community solar.” After a long wait on the state’s Public Utilities Commission to finalize the […]
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Rare whale seen for the first time only to die hours later
Before 2010, no one had ever seen the spade-toothed beaked whale in the flesh, let alone alive.
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This post-Sandy image will seriously mess with your head
This dude either has amazing core strength or lives in a freaky sideways universe.
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Friday music blogging: Alt-J
I’ve been listening to Alt-J’s debut album, An Awesome Wave, for a while now, but it’s taken time to sink in. It is a deeply odd and idiosyncratic album, not quite like anything you’ve ever heard, it takes while to feel out its contours. However, the album just won UK’s Mercury Prize for best album, […]
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VIDEO: Romney confronted in Ohio, “Do you still think the rising of the seas is funny?”
At a campaign event today in Etna, Ohio, Gov. Romney was asked, “Do you still think the rising of the seas is funny?” Romney responded, “I never imagined such a thing is funny,” despite using rising sea levels as a punchline in his speech to the Republican National Convention.
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The most brutal ad you’ll see this election
Remember when Mitt Romney mocked efforts to "slow the rise of the oceans"? That joke's not so funny this week, as a hard-hitting new ad points out.
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London traffic light has 75 anxiety-inducing signals
It's a traffic light! It's a piece of public art! It stands where a tree used to stand! It makes us want to cry!
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These beautiful, sobering murals are made entirely out of sugar
A Canadian artist uses sugar to make art depicting the slave trade and its relationship to the sugar industry in the Americas. Pretty sweet.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker is checking on people’s families, hosting sleepovers, and generally being amazing
In the aftermath of Sandy, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is dispensing supplies, offering supportive words, and even letting folks crash at his house. Meet your new political crush.
