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Snap-together house is easy to assemble, hard to pay for
The good news: Some Danish architects teamed up with some British digital fabrication people to create a 1,250-square-foot house produced in a rapid prototyping machine. (A rapid prototyping machine uses computer modeling to quickly produce scale models of physical parts.) The bad news is, for a house made of Tinkertoy, it cost a bundle to […]
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Chick magnet: Why starting a poultry farm is like starting a band (but harder)
Despite grain price spikes and impossible hours, the trio of young farmers raising heritage chickens at Dinner Bell Farm is in it for the long haul.
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Drought dries up wells, reveals sunken Burger Kings
Now in its 100 billionth week, the drought continues to do weird things across America.
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Watch the opening of a 100-year-old mystery package
This mysterious package, sealed up on Aug. 26, 1912, has been kept in a museum in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, for the last 100 years. Curators there have no idea what was inside it, and know only a little about the man — a local political figure — who packaged it up. But they’re finding out RIGHT […]
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Squid can make music videos WITH THEIR SKIN
Oh, you thought you were insane in the membrane, Cypress Hill? That’s because you didn’t see the insane membrane of this longfin squid, which is producing its own hip-hop music video in response to electrical stimuli from an iPod.
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What the Dark Knight knows about holding our urban lives together
"The Dark Knight Rises" might be a crazy movie full of plot holes -- but it understands the systems that serve as the vulnerable hearts of our cities.
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Paul Ryan: ‘Big debate about the scientific veracity’ of ‘so-called’ climate solutions
Mitt Romney's running mate pulled out the standard climate-denier language on Friday.
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Here’s your chance to drink beer with Obama! Sort of.
The White House promises to release its beer recipe if an online petition gets 25,000 signatures.
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Romney got his great energy policy ideas from oil execs
Which is just super surprising.
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New map keeps track of 25,000 species
Scientists and garden-variety animal lovers who want specifics about where to find particular species have reason to rejoice: A new online database called The Map of Life provides cutting-edge accuracy about the whereabouts of some 25,000 species, and it’s adding more all the time.
