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The Gates Foundation just bought 50 gallons of fake poo

Bill Gates is into scat. His foundation is hard at work on a new space-age toilet, and to test the prototypes, it just bought 50 gallons of soybean-based fake feces from a soybean-based fake feces company. That’s some of it up above, sitting a lot closer to a dude’s hand than I’d want it to […]

As corn crops shrivel, Americans look to a savior: Facebook

The USDA projects the lowest corn yield since 1995 -- unless Facebook users get going with rain dances.

Can’t-miss summer reading for sustainable food fans

From academic anthologies to personal journeys, here are some of the latest books fueling the good food movement.

Fingers in its ears and singing loudly, the Wall Street Journal reports on the hottest July ever

Not that the newspaper is willfully lying to its customers, but we suggest you not let it sell you a parrot.

This miniature city is made of 100,000 staples

This is significantly more creative than we've ever gotten with office supplies.

The pool of water under the Midwest is being sucked dry. The drought is making it worse

People are overusing naturally occurring aquifers the world over. This has massive implications for food production in the near future.

Sperm whales sleep standing up

Sperm whales spend most of their time sailing lazily through the deep, only occasionally stopping to have a terrifying penis. (The ones in the video are right whales, but I assume the sperm whale is much the same.) Basically, their normal activity looks not unlike you and me sleeping. But it turns out their sleeping […]

Kobe Bryant and LeBron James use public transit at the Olympics

If the American men's Olympic basketball team can use public transportation, so can everybody else.

West Nile virus outbreak causes Dallas to declare emergency

Is climate change to blame? Hard to say. Is this a preview of coming attractions for everywhere else? Could very well be.

This couple moved all their worldly possessions using only bikes

Moving is stressful, and most of us deal with it by renting a ginormo truck, dumping our stuff in it (or bribing our buddies to dump our stuff in it), and hoping that nothing in our newspaper-packed boxes breaks. But Anthony and Jess Reiss decided to take a chance on a potentially really, really stressful […]