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The week in GIFs: Sex strikes, spiders, and smog vacuums

This week was a test of your incredulity meter.

Holly Richmond Culture

Could this glow-in-the-dark road coating replace streetlights?

Solar road coating Starpath is anti-slip and non-reflective, so basically the only thing it can’t do is beam you into another world.

Holly Richmond Cities

Is DDT a time-bomb behind the obesity epidemic?

Inject rats with DDT, and three generations later their descendants are obese. A new study raises questions about the insecticide's long-term impact on humans.

Nathanael Johnson Technology

Repeat after me: There’s no such thing as energy independence

The U.S. will likely be the world's top oil producer this year, but we're still hugely dependent on the rest of the world for our energy supplies.

Ben Adler Technology

Barnacles are accidentally eating our plastic trash

Scientists discovered microplastic in one third of gooseneck barnacles hanging out in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

John Upton Culture

India blocking efforts to save planet from climate-killing air conditioners

Has India tossed out the Kama Sutra and come up with another way of screwing the world?

John Upton Technology

The hot new teen trend is competitive milk tasting

Hey, it's no less cool than debate or band or model U.N. (All of which are really cool, right?)

Jess Zimmerman Food

This company wants to let you see the world from 100,000 feet

World View wants to take you to the edge of space, without rocket fuel -- in a helium balloon.

Jess Zimmerman Culture

Democracy in action: 300 enviros, unionists and locals “town hall” together on proposed LNG export terminal

The first town hall meeting concerning the risks of the proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal in Maryland was held Tuesday night, October 23. It was a big and rousing success. At least 300 people attended, most of them local residents. It was held at the Southern Community Center in Lusby, Md. in Calvert County, […]

Ted Glick Uncategorized

Study shows humans are jerks

We're too selfish to want to avert climate change.

Sarah Laskow Culture

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