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Paris is building a crazy-looking indoor banana farm
Man, Parisians are so grabby. They already have the Eiffel Tower, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Grey Poupon, and now they’re going to have locally grown bananas too? Parisians at the the Agricultural Urbanism Lab are hard at work (if you can call a life with six weeks of paid vacation work) on a miniature vertical […]
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Seriously, what the hell is this thing
io9 is asking for help on behalf of a reader who found a horrible tentacle-thing on the ground in Stockholm, Sweden. He wants help identifying it, presumably so that when he gets devoured his next-of-kin knows where to search for its lair. I’m gonna go with “the unholy offspring of a sea urchin, an Elder […]
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Pesticide-resistant insects add insult to drought injury
Monsanto's GMO corn is succumbing to corn rootworms, the exact insects it was designed to kill. And the drought in the Midwest is only making things worse.
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Here is a map of America’s most obese states
Winning the dubious distinction of first place: Mississippi.
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Romney: Obama hates coal. Obama: Romney hates wind.
Romney stumps for coal and Obama stumps for wind, in a fight that could define the 2012 presidential race.
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New Agtivist: From backyard farmer to community visionary in Oakland
With a farm store and a 220-acre project in the works, City Girl Farms founder Abeni Ramsey is pushing the urban agriculture envelope in Oakland and beyond.
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All the plants in the Amazon would die without this tiny patch of desert in Africa
Sometimes nature has the coolest trans-continental bromance with itself.
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Enbridge CEO tries to defend tar-sands pipeline, says ridiculous nonsense
Enbridge chief Patrick Daniel went on the radio to try to convince people to like his company's plan for a pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia, and ended up just eating his feet.
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Climate change could take away high school football
High school football season is heating up—but not in a good way. Climate change could ruin the sport for good.
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Tommy Lee: ‘Please don’t torture whales by playing them Mötley Crüe’
Tommy Lee may specialize in loud music, amateur porn, and wearing eyeliner even though he’s almost 50, but he’s not a monster. He loves his animal brethren, and he would never torment them by forcing them to listen to the same music his human fans pay like $200 to hear live. That’s why he wrote […]
