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This urn uses your ashes to grow a tree to (sort of) take your place
A French designer has created something called the Poetree, so that your loved one can plant a tree in your ashes and you can live on forever. You'll be living on forever as a tree, but it's better than nothing.
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What would it mean to treat climate change like a security threat?
In the realm of national security, we accept the need to make decisions in the face of clashing worldviews and incomplete information. David Roberts wonders what climate hawks can learn from security hawks.
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Obscenely rich people can raise obscenely rich chickens in this $100,000 coop
Neiman Marcus is selling a chicken coop. It costs a lot. It will make people think rich people are even more disgusting than they already are, which is pretty disgusting.
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NASA satellite discovers Cookie Monster on Mercury
It's a crater shaped like Cookie Monster! Or at least, those are Cookie Monster's eyes, but ... OH MY GOD WHERE IS HIS MOUTH???
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Almost $11 million spent on Solyndra attack ads — but voters aren’t buying it
Special interest groups spent close to $11 million since April on ads attacking Solyndra and clean-energy loans. But polls show most voters still don't know about the company or are indifferent.
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Rooting for root vegetables: The perfect recipes for fall and winter
Here are three hearty recipes from a new cookbook dedicated entirely to root vegetables. Trust us, it's better than it sounds.
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Here is a turtle that pees through its mouth
Suddenly being a turtle doesn't sound all that great.
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Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry, use money to help world
Norway is raising its carbon tax and setting up a $1.6 billion fund to help developing countries cope with climate change. Only in Scandinavia!
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Questions at VP debate reveal bankrupt Beltway thinking
The vice presidential debate revealed nothing about energy or climate, but lots about the twisted priorities of Beltway conventional wisdom.
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Giant weird eyeball found on Florida beach
A giant eyeball was found on a beach in Florida. It is so giant and so weird they don't know what creature it belongs to. But they'll find out eventually.
