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Giant 2,000-pound camels used to live in the Arctic
Back when the Arctic was a slightly-less-frozen wasteland, one-ton camels roamed its plains.
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Sure, that bike is nice, but wouldn’t you rather have a unicorn?
We've all been there. You're trying to sell a really nice bike to a dude who seems really interested, and then OF COURSE some jackass shows up with a unicorn and the whole deal goes sour.
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Faux meats get a boost from horsemeat scandal
Sales of frozen hamburgers are way down in the U.K., while sales of frozen fake burgers are way up.
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As the climate warms, skiers can kiss their Aspen goodbye
Global warming almost certainly spells doom for ski resorts. So why aren’t industry leaders making more of a stink about it?
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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.
