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Duke Energy CEO Bill Johnson resigns after one day, gets $44 million in severance
For his eight-hour tenure as top dog at Duke, Bill Johnson made a cool $44.4 million.
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Life-size LEGO garden sprouts up in Australia
In the Age of the Anthropocene, nature is what humans make it. LEGO took this idea quite literally when it graced the Australian town of Broken Hill, in New South Wales, with these giant versions of LEGO flowers and trees.
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Fit in with the masses with this reusable tote that looks like a plastic bag
If those reusable “I am not a plastic bag” totes earn glances of hippie-hating scorn from the populace, the THANK YOU THANK YOU bag helps green-minded people blend into the crowd while still sticking to their principles.
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Economy adds 80,000 new jobs — fewer than expected, hoped
The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report released this morning is not great news for the incumbent president -- or the country.
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Sudden desert: Midwest drought is bad news for farmers and eaters
The "most productive corn crop in years" is drying up and shrinking fast. Is our dependence on monocrops heightening the impact of this year's drought?
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We’re fighting the wrong fights over energy subsidies
Clean energy subsidies are really very small in the grand scheme of things, says Michael Liebreich of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Consider that we're spending $83 billion a year just to patrol the Straits of Hormuz.
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Umbra’s second helpings: Making a stink about infrequent showering
A reader wonders if she should make her young sons bathe more frequently. Umbra comes clean.
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Scientists make depressing discovery about oceanic plastic pollution using depressing research technique
One of the best ways to gauge the extent of plastic pollution is by slicing up dead birds, some of whom were killed by the plastic.
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South Korea may start hunting whales again, for ‘science’
As part of the argument the nation makes for doing its scientific research: "whale meat is still part of a culinary tradition". Same reason we studied the Higgs boson.
