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Turns out IKEA cake now comes with extra feces
IKEA: where you can get a cheap bed and some poop in your snacks.
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Clean Break Inspires Americans to Pursue “Energy Change”
Renewable energy journalist Osha Gray Davidson recently released a book called Clean Break, detailing the German Energiewende (translation: energy change). It’s a story of how the Germans systematically shifted to clean energy, finding as they proceeded that the possibilities were greater, the costs lower, and the benefits for ordinary citizens more prodigious than anyone could […]
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Bike Helmet of Justice will capture footage of the a*hole driver who hit you
It has embedded in it seven cameras that start recording when jarred and jostled -- i.e., when the cyclist wearing it gets into an accident.
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Mind-bending four-dimensional graffiti takes street art to the next level
Street artist INSA paints, photographs, re-paints, and re-photographs his works over a span of days, resulting in a piece of graffiti art that becomes really special when viewed as a time-lapse animation.
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LEDs will soon light your home
Energy-efficient LED lightbulbs are becoming affordable and being designed to resemble the incandescent bulbs of old.
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We’re addicted to this map of average commute times in the U.S.
On average, in America, it takes a person 25.4 minutes to get to work. But averages elide so much wonderful, painful information about location and the burden of commuting.
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Global warming is causing flying squirrels to engage in miscegenation
The northern flying squirrel and the southern flying squirrel are beginning to mate. It might be because of climate change. Or maybe they're just really attracted to each other.
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Fort Collins, Colo., passes fracking ban; state and gas industry threaten to sue
The Fort Collins City Council voted to ban fracking within city limits. Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper says the move is illegal and the state will sue.
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These beautiful landscapes are actually piles of trash
Artist Yao Lu's works look like classical Chinese landscape paintings, but they're really photographs of landfill garbage covered in construction netting.
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This soccer ball generates energy while you play
Soccer is a cool, continental sport. Now it is also green, thanks to this energy-generating soccer ball.
