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We picked 10 badass candidates for the new $10 bill
Because the U.S. Treasury decided that it would be "some lady ... !"
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One benefit to California’s drought: Cleaner beaches
Water quality along Los Angeles County's coast has improved due to less runoff.
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This grocery store wants to sell ugly veggies
In a beautiful victory in the fight against food waste, Raley's will now sell ugly vegetables.
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This electric scooter comes with swappable batteries
Eat your heart out, Elon Musk.
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Why are we building a research center full of deadly diseases in the tornado capital of the world?
The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility is being moved from a remote corner of Long Island to Kansas, right in the middle of Tornado Alley. What could go wrong?
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The pope’s climate change encyclical, in tweets
The pontiff is tweeting up a storm about his new climate change encyclical.
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Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si” encyclical expresses moral obligation to fight climate change
The letter says in strong words that human activity and production of greenhouse gases are to blame.
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Should I be drinking local or sustainable beer?
Which to buy -- beer that's made close by or suds brewed with green energy but then shipped cross-country? Umbra cuts through the foam.
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Could a California labor ruling drive Uber under?
A labor commission rules that Uber drivers should be treated as employees -- and casts a big question-mark over the entire "Uber-for-this-and-that" market.
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Mark Ruffalo talks climate change and what you can do about it
"We don’t need a superhero, but maybe we do need more people to get angry and turn that into action."
