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Water-spout jetpacks are hands down the coolest personal transport we’ve seen
These jetpacks, which hold you up on columns of water, are not an alternative to cars (yet). But they look like the funnest EVER.
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How the New Politics May Be Hazardous to Your Health
After the 2000 census, many states used politics and innovative mapping technology to gerrymander new electoral districts to lock in gains for one party or the other. California politicians, for example, drew new “safe” seats and the result was hyper-partisanship and politicians who didn’t need to pay attention to anyone that wasn’t singing from their […]
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Newly discovered super-advanced biocarbon device: anchovy poop!
(At the Northwest Biocarbon Initiative we are constantly on the hunt for ways to improve the carbon storage capacity of natural systems. One of my partners in the project, Rhys Roth, came across this new scientific study on the importance of fish poop. One way to help remove the carbon load in the Earth’s atmosphere! […]
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Here’s Bob Ross feeding a baby squirrel with a bottle
It's a video of "happy little trees" painter Bob Ross feeding a squirrel from a bottle. There's really just nothing else to say about this.
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David Quammen says we better brace for the next Big One
The veteran science writer isn't worried about earthquakes -- he's talking about diseases that come from wild animals as we tear into the Earth's last wild places.
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Here’s why you should never stick your head out of a train window
We get it: Trains are cool, and wind in your hair is cool, and you like to put cool things on Instagram. But this video of a girl sticking her head out a train window to take pictures should demonstrate to you why you should not stick your head out a train window to take […]
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London’s proposed commuter canal would let you swim to work
Two architects have proposed an 8-mile swimming/skating lane in London. It's probably not going to happen. But it should, and it makes us think every city should just do something crazy and beautiful like this.
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Miracle fish: Is the search for the perfect farmed seafood really over?
As an herbivorous fish that makes its own omega-3 fatty acids, the barramundi is a promising farmed choice. But even this relatively green species doesn't solve all aquaculture's problems.
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Nature-loving kid aims to be photographed with every type of animal on Earth
In the last 11 years, Tallon Nightwalker has been photographed with more than 840 animals, live and up close. But he’s still got more than 25,000 to go to reach his goal, because Tallon is aiming to be photographed with every type of animal on the planet.
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This 30,000-square-foot building is made out of beer bottles
The Morrow Royal Pavilion looks like some kind of palace, but it's made of crushed beer bottles mixed with fly ash.
