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Black licorice recalled for containing lead, tasting disgusting

To be fair, not all black licorice contains lead. Just some. It is all disgusting, though.

Why does Mitt Romney continue to hate Colorado and/or wind?

With time running out and the wind industry wavering, Congress still hasn't moved on the production tax credit.

Cinnabon pizzas exist, and these guys ate one

As long as we’re having hot dog pizzas and cheeseburger pizzas, why not put pizza on everything? Why not go mad? We could have pizza coffee and pizza ice cream and pizza s’mores and pizza Cinnabons! Ha ha ha ha ha oh wait that last one actually exists. Cinnabon is only rolling out these personal […]

How Boston and New York hope to avoid becoming Atlantis

New efforts by both cities are trying to address sea-level rise before it becomes a big problem.

This beautiful image is actually 150 years of hurricane data

John Nelson, the guy who brought you the gorgeous maps of wildfire and tornado data, has really outdone himself this time. This is more than 150 years of hurricanes, presented in an unusual orientation (Antarctica is at the center of the map), and it is downright stunning.

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 […]

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.

Drought dries up wells, reveals sunken Burger Kings

Now in its 100 billionth week, the drought continues to do weird things across America.

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 […]

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.