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Get your city fix: Parklets, DIY bike lanes, and other hometown improvement projects
Inspired by crosswalk vigilante Anthony Cardenas? Then check out these other city hacks of questionable legality.
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Whole Foods opens in Detroit, threatening stereotypes everywhere
The opening of a Whole Foods in inner-city Detroit has caused more fanfare than possibly any grocery-store debut in history. Why all the hoopla?
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Slicing open stalagmites to reveal climate secrets
Scientists are heading underground for clues to ancient climates.
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Oklahoma’s cyclones were all kinds of freaky
Last week's flurry of tornadoes included the widest twister ever recorded in the U.S. and one tornado that spun backward.
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Bird penises are fascinating. Wait, where are you going?
Occasionally we like to remind you that you should not mess with nature because it is weirder and scarier than you. Case in point: duck dick.
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Gulf oil wells have been leaking since 2004 hurricane
Oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico since a platform was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan -- and nobody's doing anything to stop it.
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China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move to Buy Smithfield, World’s Leading Pork Producer
By Janet Larsen Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that may not be enough to satisfy the growing Chinese appetite for meat. While meat consumption in the United States has fallen more than 5 percent since peaking in 2007, Chinese meat consumption has leapt 18 percent, from 64 […]
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Disgusting pizza-spaghetti smoothie will make you glad you’re an American
Can you think of anything tastier than a pizza-and-spaghetti-flavored slushie? YEAH, US TOO.
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Toss your kombucha: Sperm is the new superfood (at least for squid)
We need SQUID to tell us that ingesting sperm is a good idea? We've been doing that for -- never. Hi dad!
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Monsanto says opponents may be to blame for GMO wheat escape
Monsanto's investigation into a rogue GMO outbreak can be summarized thusly: “Nothing is wrong at our end and everybody's crops are safe. Maybe our opponents planted our freak wheat to try to hurt us.”
