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Detroit is building the world’s longest hopscotch course (4.2 miles!)
Two Detroit organizations, Wedge Detroit and Imagine Detroit Together, are planning the World’s Longest Hopscotch Course — 4.2 miles of chalky, colorful joy. As part of the Detroit Design Festival, they’re going to break out the paint, chalk, and knee pads on September 19, draw until September 22, and then recruit 30 volunteers to add […]
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Our constantly warming summers, animated
Animated data from NASA clearly shows how temperatures are rising.
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Middle schoolers convince L.A. school district to ban styrofoam
Anyone who thinks that kids don’t care about anything but eating uncooked ramen and playing video games clearly underestimated the kids of Thomas Starr King Middle School in Los Angeles. Their interests include uncooked ramen, playing video games, building a tower of styrofoam, and getting so grossed out by it that they launch a letter-writing […]
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The Amazon rainforest’s clouds may come from mushrooms
I have not ever visited the Amazon, but in my imagination, it is populated by some serious, colorful, amazing fungi, all of which will either kill you or get you extremely high. But a new paper in Science found that the rainforest’s mushroom could have another vital purpose: producing a motherlode of potassium that helps […]
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Shocker: The oil that Isaac washed up on the Gulf Coast is from the BP spill
Literally no one saw this coming. BP, for example, was staggered.
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The part of Obama’s speech that was about climate without saying so
Yes, Obama said the words "climate change" in his speech, but even more relevant to solving the big problem of global warming, he talked about the importance of "citizenship."
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The creepiest earthworm you have ever seen is 19 inches long
Forestry worker Li Zhiwei found this gigantic earthworm in his backyard and is keeping it as a pet. If you think that screenshot is vaguely disturbing, wait ’til you see this guy move:
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Obama’s solid week falls flat with disappointing jobs report
The country added an estimated 96,000 jobs in August -- much lower than analysts predicted.
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Earth’s most beautiful fractal patterns have to be seen to be believed
Computer science professor Paul Bourke has an exhaustive amount of information about fractals on his website, but for my money the coolest part is his collection of naturally occurring fractal images from Google Earth. If I hadn’t looked them up, I’d suspect some of these were computer-generated — but no, they’re real rivers, lakes, and […]
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Giving sustainable food businesses a needed push
Local Food Lab -- and other business accelerators like it -- are stepping in to help small food producers scale up and get serious.
