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Pipeline builder advised to gin up fake grassroots support
TransCanada has teamed up with the world's largest public relations firm to promote a proposed alternative pipeline that's entirely in Canada.
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Comedian Wyatt Cenac on mayo, hair salons, and gentrification
The former Daily Show correspondent says there are two kinds of gentrifier. Only one would open a mayonnaise shop.
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Would you like some spies with that right to peacefully assemble?
Forty different federal agencies are keeping themselves busy spying on the American public, according to a New York Times study.
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We’re eating chocolate faster than we can grow it
Climate change is fueling a global chocolate shortage -- and we aren't helping.
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Big Oil doesn’t even need Keystone — all the more reason to kill it
The Keystone XL battle is mostly symbolic at this point, which makes winning even more important.
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What a shrimp treadmill can teach us about science funding
Republicans contend that a shrimp treadmill isn't worth $3 million. They're right: It's priceless. (And only cost $47.)
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Rising seas are swallowing this Republican’s district. Will he do anything about it?
Much of Garret Graves' district may one day be underwater.
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Watch out, NYC, your backyard carrots might be pumped full of lead
The study found five out of seven garden plots had unsafe levels of toxic metals in the soil. Gulp.
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Is 4-H trying to hook African farmers on costly seeds?
A conversation with author Kiera Butler about the ethical issues around introducing developing countries to hybrid seeds that are high-yield -- and high-cost.
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Should we feed needy families junk food?
A reader wonders what to do with the low-nutrition food that's being donated for feeding the hungry. Umbra says put it in the bank.
