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Are the Batteries Ready? 100% Clean Energy Requires Progress on Storage
In the long run, there’s no avoiding energy storage for a 100% renewable energy society. The two major sources of renewable power are wind and sun, and they are either fickle or reliably not available at night. The problem is that the simplest energy storage option for electricity is batteries, and this image from Wikipedia […]
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If this photo doesn’t make you want to live in a tiny house, nothing will
We love us a good tiny house, but you know what is better than your run-of-the-mill tiny house? A tiny house on a tiny rock. A tiny house on a tiny rock in the middle of a river. With a kayak your only connection to land.
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In the climate crap shoot, it’s getting harder and harder to win
Research recently released by James Hansen links extreme weather to climate change -- and every year, our odds get worse.
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Awesome idea: Require a cycling test to get a driver’s license
As a cyclist, sharing the road with cars is scary, for obvious reasons: They’re gigantic metal objects moving fast enough to kill you. But as a driver, sharing the roads with cyclists is also kinda scary. Most drivers are good people who don’t want to kill anyone while they’re out doing errands, but they don’t […]
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These bands are ditching tour buses for tour bikes and tour trains
Tour buses are basically synonymous with sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll, and also that scene in Almost Famous that guaranteed you’ve still got “Tiny Dancer” in your head. But now some bands are ditching buses altogether. It doesn’t matter if you’re just a guy with a guitar who wants to get up on that […]
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Meet the internet’s newest sexy science star, Mohawk Guy
Sure, ostensibly you stayed up to watch Curiosity land. But you just couldn’t keep your eyes off the handsome specimen with the star-spangled ‘hawk. Seven minutes of terror? Try seven minutes of HELLO, NURSE. As always, the internet means knowing you’re not alone in whatever you’re into, even if what you’re into is Inspector Gadget/Pokemon […]
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Human Curiosity lands on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover is on the surface of the Red Planet -- a triumph of scientific discovery that survived incredible odds.
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You will not be able to stop looking at this penis snake
Seriously, Nature, what are you ON?
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‘The Queen of Versailles’ almost makes you feel sorry for the 1%. Almost.
The film's magic is its ability to make us realize that we're all human. But let's not forget, when the economy collapsed, some were more culpable than others.
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Seven climate-change diseases to ruin your day
Climate change is creating favorable conditions for several (unpronounceable, gross) diseases.
