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What would happen if everyone on Earth jumped at the same time?
Michael Stevens of internet thingy VSauce investigates the foremost question in the minds of people who care about the Earth: How worried do we need to be that everyone on the planet is going to travel to Los Angeles and jump simultaneously? Would that cause an earthquake? Would it knock Earth off its axis? And […]
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Scoop: A preview of Romney’s energy plan
We managed to get our hands on Romney's energy policy a day before he will announce it.
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Honda Miimo is basically a Roomba for your lawn
Can you imagine just being able to sit around and watch television all weekend on your massive energy-sucking flat screen while someone else niftily, sustainably, mowed your lawn? Someone you didn’t have to pay? Someone you didn’t even have to talk to, because they’re a little tiny automatic lawn mower, which is, when you get […]
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New clean energy plant will run on used cooking oil
In Shoreham, on the south coast of England, they’re building a clean energy plant that will operate on basically the same fuel as your biodiesel-retrofitted Jetta. The plant will burn used cooking oil, tall oil pitch (whatever that is), animal tallow, and waste vegetable oils to potentially provide as many as 20,000 Brits with power for their […]
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As New York nears fracking decision, both sides take to the airwaves
Opponents and supporters of fracking are doing battle on radio and TV along New York State's southern border.
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Swiss can now brag about neutrality, cheese, and a tree museum
If you were a tree, could you think of a better life than living with 2,000 other trees on the grounds of a 14th century Swiss monastery? Well, I have no idea what trees like, so maybe not — but if that sounds good to a tree, it is now possible. The Tree Museum, which opened this […]
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Don’t toss your cookies: Curbing the crisis of food waste
Almost half the food in the U.S. goes uneaten, and every part of the supply chain is to blame -- including you and me. But we can do better.
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Elephants in the room: Urban poverty, climate change, and other problems we love to ignore
When times get tough, Americans seem incapable of having rational discussions about our most pressing issues. As a result, they’ve been erased from the political discourse. The implications are downright ugly.
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Beyond chicken patties: How to improve school lunch without spending more
As kids go back to school this month, cafeteria expert Kate Adamick is working with parents and school administrators to rethink school lunch budgeting in radical new ways.
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Possibly on the GOP convention guest list: Hurricane Isaac
Could a hurricane hitting the 2012 GOP convention change minds on climate change? Ha ha, no.
