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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?
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New York postpones fracking decision to gather information on health impacts
The state will review potential health effects of fracking before deciding whether to lift a moratorium.
