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Is there any point to buying organic baby food?
Organic baby food costs like twice as much as regular baby food. A recent study raises the question: Is this money you really need to spend?
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This is the first two-headed bull shark ever seen
This is almost certainly not a result of pollution or the BP spill or whatever, but feel free to freak out, as it is probably a sign of the End Times anyway.
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Giant pandas get shipped around the world via FedEx
We're going to imagine they're in giant FedEx boxes and that someone has to pull a gigantic tab in order to open them and let the pandas out.
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New Weather Channel show talks to the people who are trying to change the climate (with cartoons and jokes!)
The show visits researchers who are coming up with creative, and in some cases cray-cray, solutions to rescue us hapless citizens from the havoc we're wreaking on our world.
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Obama creates five new national monuments
He is protecting land on the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington state, creating a monument to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railway in Maryland, and more.
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Noble hunter rescues lost seal pup mysteriously stranded in a Swedish forest
The pup was four miles away from any open body of water.
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The most metal way to recycle your water bottles: Make them into DIY rockets
This may not be a sensible alternative to recycling, but it is an excellent alternative to NOT shooting flaming bottles at stuff.
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Can we 3D print our way out of climate change?
3D printing could slash the carbon footprint of manufacturing and provide nifty solutions for a disaster-prone world.
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Ask Umbra: Is it cruel to kill insects?
A reader wonders if it’s OK to wear earrings made of butterfly wings. Umbra wants you to weigh in.
