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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.
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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.
