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Donate $5 to charity and these guys will dance in a bear suit, fix your resume, or walk your dog
Raise5 lets you get the warm fuzzy feeling of donating to charity, PLUS have someone design your business card, draw a picture of your hair, or remind you of good bits from the Simpsons.
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Nazis kidnap Buddha statue from spaaaaaace!
There is an iron Buddha statue, just under 10 inches high, that has now been confirmed to be made from a meteorite
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Confined dining: A primer on factory farms and what they mean for your meat
More and more of the meat you buy in the supermarket is produced in meat factories, a.k.a. CAFOs. Hold your nose and have a look, then think hard about that next hot dog.
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Absolutely the best animal photobomb ever
This stingray is all "Hey guys! Are we doing a group photo? Rad! You'll tag me on Facebook, right?"
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Climate change means you’re going to have to ski on snow made out of sewage
In the future, all the ski slopes will be doing what Arizona Snowbowl is doing this season: making snow out of sewage effluent.
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Domestic oil production reaches a 15-year high
Republicans may complain that Obama hates oil, but under his watch, U.S. oil production has hit its highest weekly level since 1997.
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Why do you laugh when people fall down? Blame your ape ancestors
We laugh, and apes laugh too, and because we come from apes, we might laugh in ways that they laugh, but because we aren't apes, we laugh in some ways that are different.
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Three ways Romney’s new coal ad is hopelessly wrong
But on the plus side, it doesn't feature any forced labor.
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100-year-old chestnut tree composes its own concert and light show
A tree in Berlin is the unlikely but cool source of a spontaneous concert.
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Dispatch from Ohio, land of public markets and urban farms
Our correspondent visits the annual Public Market Conference in Cleveland and discovers an inspiring urban farm.
