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Prepare yourself for the sun’s magnetic field to flip polarity
It won't really affect us at all -- unless we can use apocalypse panic to convince science deniers to flee to remote areas.
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Riding lessons for U.S. cities from one of Europe’s bike capitals
The key to convincing Americans to swap out the car for a bike? Make bicycling boring -- and ensure that they won’t end up as road pizza.
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Now you can make alcoholic beverages out of used coffee grounds
Get those coffee grounds the hell out of the compost pile, because science has worked out how to transform them into booze.
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Can a giant ice wall stop Fukushima radiation from leaking into the sea?
Some 300 tons of radioactive water are pouring from the plant into the Pacific every day, so TEPCO wants to build a mile-long underground ice wall to stop the leakage.
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The tiniest of tiny houses began its life as a dumpster
A dumpster makes perfect sense as housing in NYC.
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“Everything is Connected” – The People vs. Coal Exports in the Northwest
In recent days, there were new developments in the fight against Northwest coal exports that stopped me in my tracks. Last week, the news broke that the official review of the largest proposed coal export terminal in Washington State will be unprecedented in scope, and will include not only the health and environmental effects of […]
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The week in GIFs: Fast food, fancy water, and candy grapes
This week was brought to you by the word "food."
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Wifi-enabled trash can knows where you live
They reach out to pedestrians with their wifi tentacles and "track the proximity and speed of people walking past."
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Awesome farmer builds his pigs a mudslide, just for kicks
One can only imagine the gush-gush-SLURRRP noises and happy oinks that followed.
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Hot wheels: Tips for smokin’ bike dates
Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, takes her sweetie for a ride in the city.
