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These are the best-dressed animals we’ve ever seen
Have you ever looked at an animal and thought "it's cute, but I sure wish it were more of a sartorial role model"? Barcelona photographer Yago Partal has solved your problem.
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Pesticide makers want you to save the bees
Manufacturers of bee-killing pesticides say their products are safe -- and they think you should be doing more to help pollinators.
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Gas fracked in America will help keep the British warm
The U.K. is running short of natural gas, so one of America's charitable fracking companies plans to send lots their way by tanker ship.
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Climate change will give more people diarrhea
A study of 30 years of data on diarrhea in Botswana found something pretty gross: As the climate changes, it's probably going to mean that more people contract diarrheal disease.
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Distributed energy: Driving the ghosts out of the machine
The electricity system is undergoing the same transition -- from centralized control to loosely coupled networks -- that has been seen in other areas of thought and technology. Also, Descartes something something!
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Australia had to kill a lot of cats to save these tiny marsupials
The government dispatched 3,000 of them over 16 days to keep them the hell away from endangered greater bilbies.
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Monsanto flirts with disaster, owns the world anyway
Just three years ago, the agribusiness giant was a laughingstock. Thanks to its friends in government and the courts, and new industry alliances, it's back with a vengeance.
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We are weirdly addicted to this neighborhood-identification game
Code for America created a neato game to help you learn about all the different neighborhoods where you live. And where you don't live.
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New gasoline rules are good for your lungs and bad for Big Oil
The Obama administration is proposing to slash sulfur content in gasoline by two-thirds, improving your air and pissing off oil execs.
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Scientists may have found an all-natural way to keep bread from going moldy
They're figuring out how to extend the shelf life of bread. This is good news, even though all of us pretend we're trying to stop eating it, which we never will, so just forget it.
