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Got $300? Buy a ride on a six-legged robot named Stompy
Stop fronting: You know perfectly well you want to ditch your car AND your bike and ride around town in a 10-foot, two-ton, six-legged robot. And if you donate to Project Hexapod, the creators of this behemoth (whose name is Stompy), you can get your wish. Just $300 gets you a ride around town in […]
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Even fish are getting skin cancer now
For the pale-skinned among us, the ocean is one of the most dangerous places to be. There’s no place to hide from the sun, and the water is so frickin’ reflective that even if that SPF 45 sunblock weren’t being washed off by waves and spray, it wouldn’t do much good anyway. But for the […]
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Plenty of work for pundits: U.S. adds jobs in July, but unemployment goes up
The country adds 163,000 new jobs, but the unemployment rate rises from 8.2 to 8.3 percent. Now everyone has something to argue about!
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Mixed blessings: A smaller Gulf dead zone offers less to celebrate than you’d think
This year's unusually small Gulf dead zone bucks the upward trend and will give aquatic life a chance to rebound. But it's no reason to breathe easy about nutrient runoff from agriculture.
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Umbra’s second helpings: Beer vs. wine
A reader wonders whether beer or wine deserves more green buzz. Umbra tips one back.
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The mother of all rides: Biking across America on the old Route 66
In "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck dubbed Route 66 “The Mother Road.” Now this long-abandoned cross-country byway gets a second life as an epic bike touring highway.
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Cincinnati bans fracking injection wells
The unanimous vote from the city council is a first for the state of Ohio.
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One brave warrior’s desperate leap to save a civilization
With a whiff of carbon in the air, Jim prepared for his suicide mission.
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Mitt Romney stops by Colorado to laugh about how he hates their jobs
Romney's announcement this week that he wants to end a key tax credit for wind power will not make him very popular.
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Antarctica used to be covered in palm trees, says study
A new study examining 50-million-year-old ice from Antarctica indicates that the continent used to be covered in warm-weather flora like palm trees. And hey, maybe it could be again if carbon dioxide levels get too high! By “too high” we’re talking about really high — CO2 concentrations in the early Eocene epoch, the time period […]
