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The Gates Foundation will pay $100,000 for a better condom
The foundation is offering a grant for developing "the next generation of condom." By which it means, one that makes sex feel better, or at least not any worse.
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Want to save the planet? Shrink your habitat — not just your apartment
All that recycling and bicycling and turning off the lights? It’s completely undone the second you step onto an airplane.
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Environmentalists and gas companies sing Kumbaya, create voluntary fracking standards
The new, oxymoronically named Center for Sustainable Shale Development will certify gas companies that meet stricter environmental standards.
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This dude jumping his skateboard over subway tracks is both crazy and CRAZY AWESOME
And, one might argue, way less concerned than he should be about the poor subway driver who'd be traumatized by killing him.
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The road to climate heaven is paved with ever cheaper oil
Climate advocates need to focus as much on oil as we have on coal, breaking its monopoly and driving its price -- and investment value -- down.
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For some reason, Emma Watson thinks getting naked will help the environment
We don't entirely get the green angle here.
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Fukushima nuclear power plant shutdown was caused by a rat
Nuclear power plants are perfectly safe, as long as there are no rats around.
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Ice: Makes your drinks cold, contains feces
Do you want ice? It might kill you but it will make your drink cold!
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Here are a couple of weather experts who actually believe in climate change
Many TV meteorologists are skeptics, but the heads of the Weather Company and the National Weather Service grok this whole global warming thing.
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Can San Jose’s green vision live up to its hype?
The California city set a 2022 deadline for all kinds of lofty green innovations. But how about building some more bike lanes?
