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What is this talking otter trying to tell us?
I never realized this before, but it turns out otters can talk, and furthermore they sound just like Ike from South Park. This one also seems mildly irked by human inability to comprehend her language. What is she trying to tell us?
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Miners’ mandatory attendance at Romney rally cost them a day’s pay
Coal miners in Ohio really got the shaft when Romney came to town.
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Number of bees in Queens man’s yard exceeds population of Queens
New York legalized beekeeping in 2010, but that does not mean that it was cool with city officials when they discovered that a guy in Queens named Yi Gin Chen had 45 beehives in his yard, containing 3 million bees. That’s more bees than there are people who live in Queens.
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Keeping it in the family: BPA’s effects might last in our bodies for generations
Scientists who exposed mice to BPA at low-level, consistent doses found that it caused genetic and behavioral changes that persisted for generations.
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Through a green glass, darkly: How climate will reshape American history
How does today's climate crisis revise our understanding of our collective past? Mark Fiege, author of a new environmental chronicle of the U.S., takes us on a natural history tour.
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Rush Limbaugh says Obama manipulated hurricane forecasts to delay GOP convention
The conservative radio host spins out a truly wacky conspiracy theory.
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New York’s fracking war: Activists rally in Albany; Bloomberg tries to make fracking cleaner
Hundreds protest against fracking in the state capital, while New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes a $6 million grant to the Environmental Defense Fund to help make fracking more eco-friendly.
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Viewer Trust Requires Forecasting the Facts
Why do people watch the local weather report, anyway? That was the question floating just below the surface of last week’s 40th annual broadcast meteorology conference in Boston. Just like their print counterparts, local news stations are being buffeted by the winds of online innovation, and weather is particularly vulnerable. Today, detailed forecasts are just […]
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Awesome commercial shows you how to harness a rude giant’s antisocial tendencies
This power company ad is the most charming and poignant commercial for renewables we've ever seen.
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Stuck in traffic, cancer surgeon commandeers little girl’s bike to get to the hospital
The surgeon borrowed an 8-year-old's pink Schwinn and Disney princess helmet to make it to the operating table in time.
