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This gizmo will help you recover your bike from evil bike thieves
It's possible to set it to a level of sensitivity so delicate that if anyone so much as jostles your bike, you will hear about it, via text message or email.
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What does the collapse of solar-panel giant Suntech mean? Pricier panels, probably
Chinese solar-panel heavyweight Suntech is going bankrupt, and lots of other panel manufacturers around the world are in trouble too.
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Oklahoma man will pay you $100,000 to take his geodesic dome
You might be excited that you could get paid to take a geodesic dome off this guy's hands. But trust me, this one should be filed under "more trouble than it's worth."
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An urban farming oasis is saved from the bulldozer blade
When the city of Cincinnati announced plans to level a deep-rooted urban garden to make way for housing development, locals fought back -- and won.
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Protests against tar-sands pipelines heat up in U.S. and Canada
Last week saw more than 50 protests against the Keystone XL and Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines -- and vows of many more to come.
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There are even more dead pigs in a Chinese river
The 16,000 dead pigs floating down the Huangpu River might actually mean that China is making progress on food safety.
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Can we shift to renewable energy? Yes. As to how …
A great piece by Elisabeth Rosenthal in The New York Times questions the conventional wisdom that we "have to" use fossil fuels for the rest of the century. But what is that dispute really about?
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Baby chicken whose father is a duck is either a new hope for extinct species or a sign of the End Times
A duck fathered a chicken. This could provide a way for scientists to shore up endangered or even previously extinct species, or it could be the precursor to dogs and cats living together.
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Potato bred to make perfect potato chips will kiiiiiill you
Scientists don't need fancy GM techniques to make weird plants that are not so good for human beings to consume.
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Idiot shoots horse on camera to promote horsemeat
An employee of a New Mexico slaughterhouse thought it would help bring attention to his horse-eating cause. It brought attention all right.
