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What makes a neighborhood cool?
Is the Upper East Side surpassing Brooklyn in coolness, as some commentators claim? No, and here's why.
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The personal (technology) is political
If you're stressed out by digital distractions and email overload, the answer is not meditation and mindfulness. It's fixing our power structures.
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Why Kentucky is doing urban farming right
How Louisville's Lots of Food is building a better food system.
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PETA’s new virtual reality game could make you too chicken to eat chicken
I, Chicken, a new virtual reality game from PETA, lets you experience life as a chicken just before slaughter.
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Nutrition, the environment, and poverty: Let’s talk!
Double Up Food Bucks is one idea that's working to get better food onto the plates of the people who most need it. Come talk with us and the people behind it.
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What kind of laundry soap is lightest on the land?
A reader wonders whether to go with liquid or powder. Umbra gives him the straight scoop.
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Amtrak wait? Blame the freight
Rail is a great way to ship your stuff and yourself for a cross-country move. If only we hadn't built a system that gives slow freight the right of way.
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It’s a historic year for temperature extremes
In the U.S., we're living in two countries: one scourged by heat and the other bitten by cold.
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Why Kansas is doing flour right
How Little Red Hen Bakery is building a better food system.
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Watch the world go up in fracking flares
Natural gas flares join city lights and the Great Wall of China as stuff you can see from space.
