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One day, your ears could power your hearing aids
Human ears are basically a fleshy battery.
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Extremely bad news, everyone: McDonald’s sales are down for the first time in years
We'll get through this together, if we all promise to eat crap for a while.
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What we can learn from California’s attempt to label GMOs
The odds of success were long. California's flawed initiative process certainly didn't help.
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This recycled-plastic bike rack would be great if it actually worked
The rack's made out of 15,000 juice pouches made by Honest Tea, which donated it to the store. Now, if only it worked.
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Colorado district wants to hoard drinking water so oil companies can maybe use it
Who could complain about that?
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This weird cologne is supposed to smell like sushi
To be fair, it apparently has more of a grassy, rice-y, seaweed-y, gingery, lemon smell.
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Wind turbines: Wrong for Sandy, wrong for Colbert
A conservative columnist argues that oil was the cure for Sandy. Oil does not, however, cure stupid.
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Umbra’s second helpings: Stressing out
The elections have you frazzled? Umbra says to chill the frack out.
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Out of the cage and onto the grass: Helping pastured eggs go mainstream
Austin's Vital Farms helps egg producers who want to transition to a pasture-based model, then markets and distributes their eggs around the country. Now it's using crowdfunding to help get more chickens out on pasture.
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The Climate Silence Continues
Anyone who takes the threat of climate change seriously has to view the reelection of Barack Obama with great satisfaction. The American people rejected Mitt Romney, a candidate who mocked the threat of climate change, much to the delight of his base. Among the millions of Americans already suffering from climate impacts, and the thousands […]
