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Watch this octopus try to steal a photographer’s camera
It's official: Animals are pissed at the paparazzi.
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Soda could soon have a warning label like cigarettes do
We can think of a few good options for the label.
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Faster, higher, stranger: 5 sports for a snow-free Winter Olympics
The games are toast, as Sochi has shown us. But don’t fret, sports fans! There’s life after sub-zero temperatures.
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Bunsen burner bummer: Lab rules favor industry over indie research
"Good Laboratory Practice" codes aimed to keep bad industry practices in check. Instead, they've become a costly burden that excludes public-interest-oriented research from key decisions.
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Tea industry claims it will undertake heroic efforts to become more sustainable
The tea business can be pretty ugly, so tea giants now say they have a plan to get greener and turn tea into a "hero crop" by 2030.
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U.S. tries to have it both ways with solar trade policy
The U.S. is trying to smash open solar-panel trade barriers in India, even while trying to protect American panel manufacturers from imports.
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Survive one Chevron fracking explosion, get a pizza and pop FREE!
The residents of Greene County, Penn., just weathered a fracking disaster, but it's cool because Chevron's buying them a pizza party (for one).
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Here’s a new, cute way to eat animals without guilt or cruelty
If you're gonna eat animals, they might as well be adorable animals made out of rice and eggs, right?
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Cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M.
Slow jams boosted milk output by 3 percent -- and here's your suggested bovine mixtape.
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Get old. Get free. Get over oil.
I’m going to burn my driver’s license when I turn 75. Maybe sooner. I’d like to do it at the offices of Koch Enterprises, if I can get a ride home. You may think this is a choice to sacrifice some freedom. But it’s the opposite: a declaration of independence from the tyranny of oil. […]
