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Jungle gym urbanism: Help this guy turn a vacant house into a bouncy-ball pit
What’s to be done with that neglected, burnt-out shell of a house that’s creating an eyesore in the neighborhood? Josh Ente of New Orleans apparently takes his inspiration from Chuck E. Cheese’s.
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Let’s put an end to ‘dietary tribalism’
Vegan, paleo, raw, locavore -- who can say what's best? One writer says concerned eaters should put down their weapons and work to change the food system together.
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Tanya Fields: Breaking locks and planting seeds in the South Bronx
Empty lots plus a passion for nutrition: How a food-stamp-reliant mother of four got into the food-justice movement.
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Scientists use glow-in-the-dark fish to track hormone-disrupting chemicals
Imagine if your body could tell you where and when a certain chemical is impacting your health. Scientists at the University of Exeter have done just that — with green-glowing zebrafish, that is. Researchers genetically engineered young zebrafish to produce a fluorescent glow in the presence of hormone-disrupting chemicals like bisphenol-A. By exposing fish to […]
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Adorable alert: Live BABY PANDA cam!
What’s black and white and so cute you’ll want to squeal like a Bieber-obsessed tween? A baby panda. And now you can see one any time you want. [vodpod id=Video.16424326&w=425&h=350&fv=]
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James Lovelock urges world to pay attention to James Lovelock
James Lovelock, famous for the Gaia hypothesis, has in recent years been warning that climate change will send us back to the Stone Age. Now he says he was being overly alarmist. Can we all agree to ignore him now?
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New research shows Big Tobacco targets black kids
Big Tobacco agreed way back in 1998 to stop marketing cigarettes to kids. Turns out cigarette companies are still up to their old tricks -- they’re just being slightly more stealth about it.
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Oil shale: An environmental disaster waiting to happen?
It used to be that oil came from a hole drilled in the ground. But as oil has become more scarce, the ways of getting at it have become more numerous — so much so that it’s getting hard to keep track. Oil sands, shale oil, oil shale: These are all different sources of oil. […]
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Watch two guys remove a honeybee swarm with their bare hands
Town and Country Pest Control is a father-son business in upstate New York that takes a holy-shit approach to its work. For instance, in the video below, they remove a bee colony with their bare hands and a box: But as any bee-savvy keeper will tell you, this isn’t as crazy as it looks. Swarms […]
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James Cameron wants to mine asteroids for precious metals. Seriously.
James Cameron is really starting to take his movies too seriously. Last month, the director descended the Mariana Trench in a submarine all beginning-of-Titanic style. Now Cameron and a bunch of other super-rich dudes say they are bankrolling a project to mine space asteroids for precious metals and rare minerals. (Remember Avatar? A bunch of greedy Americans invade a pristine alien […]
