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You will eat more cookies if you’re told they’re ‘medium’ instead of ‘large’
Although people make decisions based on size labels, they don't really know how much food or drink they're consuming.
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Mesmerizing video shows London bikeshare users’ favorite routes
London’s bikeshare has launched over 5 million trips since it started in 2010. This animation by visualization specialist Jo Wood shows you where they’ve all been going. It’s more informative if you know the city — but even if you don’t, it’s kind of hypnotic. (It won’t let us embed, but New Scientist has a […]
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We dare you not to cry while watching this man hand-feed a sick bee
An adorable bee was going to die until an adorable man adorably hand fed the bee honey and then the bee got better.
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These celebs want GMOs labeled
With the vote on GMO labeling in California only a month away, guess who's going public about the issue?
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Chipotle in hot salsa over tomato pickers’ rights
Activists are pushing Chipotle -- the one large fast food chain known for ethical meat -- to embrace a higher standard for workers. Will it work?
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The coming plague: How humans are changing the landscape of disease
Disease ecologist James Holland Jones talks about the Black Death, “suspended snot,” and the power of what Obi-Wan Kenobi once called a “wretched hive of scum and villainy" in spreading global pandemics.
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Ralph Nader bashes Obama for being weak on climate, Keystone
Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader is accusing Obama of ignoring climate change and courting fossil-fuel donors.
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These park benches have a cruel sense of humor
Jeppe Hein's benches are supposed to make you more socially engaged, but they mostly just make you feel like you're being laughed at.
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Omaha teenager starts a program to donate ungrateful kids’ fruit to the hungry
Schoolkids are now required to take a fruit or vegetable at lunch, but they're not required to eat it. This teen made her classmates donate that food instead of tossing it.
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This design turns New York’s parking lots into awesome prefab apartment buildings
Innovative green architects want to make neato affordable dwellings for elderly and homeless and so on -- but can't we have one just because we're kind of poor?
