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In 2012, 90 percent of record temperatures were record highs
According to this chart from Climate Central, record lows are about to be an artifact of the past. This year, 90 percent of daily record temperatures in the lower 48 states were record highs. In the absence of global warming, you’d expect a 50/50 ratio between record highs and record lows.
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Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Jimmy Fallon perform ‘Don’t Frack My Mother’
Here’s Sean Lennon, deliberately looking just like his father and singing just like Bob Dylan for some reason, performing a slightly naughty anti-fracking song with his mom on Jimmy Fallon’s show.
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Me, you, and everything we eat: Does food righteousness hinder system-wide change?
Do you get tired of hearing about people's personal choices every time you bring up a big-picture food system problem that needs fixing? Me too.
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‘Canopy Meg’ wants you to care about the rainforest
Amazing gravity-defying botanist talks about flying snakes, tree sloths, and the 98 percent of life in the rainforest that we don’t even know exists yet.
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Climate reality bites: Gen-Xers don’t care much about global warming
Members of Generation X are responding to climate change with a big, collective shrug of indifference, according to a new survey.
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Wham, bam, goodbye dam: Fish get down after river opens up
The removal of a dam from a river in northwest Washington proves remarkably successful at encouraging fish repopulation.
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Third-World problems in the First World: We need family planning to fight poverty in the U.S. too
A big article in The New York Times examines single motherhood and poverty, but fails to mention birth control. That's quite the omission.
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7-11’s mashed potato Slurpee machine in action
I’ve often said that the only real problem with mashed potatoes is that you can’t get them extruded out of a machine in a 7-11, in the form of a spookily liquid glop with gravy. I mean, what even is the point? Luckily, 7-11s in Singapore are finally making this right, with Slurpee-style machines that […]
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The right gets mad about the carbon tax, as everyone knew they would
On Friday, we predicted outrage over a right-wing convening on the carbon tax. It happened. We're basically psychic.
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Amazing tiny apartment has a bathtub under the dining table
This Barcelona flat might be our favorite tiny apartment yet.
