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Share and share a bike: A fresh way to find a rental cycle
A new peer-to-peer bike-sharing site connects bike owners with bike renters just about anywhere.
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Sooty cloud: A visit to Apple’s coal-powered data center
Some companies' server farms have moved toward cleaner fuel sources. Apple lags. Climate Desk paid a visit to the site of Apple's new North Carolina center.
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‘Verification in reverse’: A chat with Jay Rosen
Verification is nailing down the truth. Verification in reverse is casting doubt on previously nailed-down truths. Media critic Jay Rosen explains how the process works.
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How Huffington Post aided a demolition job on climate science
By reporting a climate-denialist stunt without probing its sources and context, the now Pulitzer-garlanded HuffPost participated in "verification in reverse" -- ripping up facts that were once nailed down.
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Scientists discover ancient antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Okay, nobody panic, but scientists have found a stash of bacteria that have never had contact with humans, but are resistant to antibiotics anyway. If this happened in a movie, this would probably end with everyone becoming dead. But I’m sure it’s fine!
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Walmart is bigger than Manhattan and richer than Norway
Mother Jones sized up the retail giant. Here's what they found.
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Oil execs get monster raises after a ‘very strong’ 2011
How big was your raise last year? John Watson, the CEO of Chevron, got a 52 percent bump in his compensation. That’s a nice chunk of change for anyone, and in Watson’s case, it brought his total yearly take up to about $25 million. Which is nothing to complain about, unless Watson is comparing his […]
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Scientists build energy-efficient computer out of crabs
Here is an amazing example of humans piggybacking on a natural phenomenon to create an incredibly clever system: crab-based computing. A crab-based computer starts with swarms of crabs. These swarms include hundreds of thousands of crabs that, individually, run every which way but that, as a group, progress in one direction. Even more incredible — […]
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The neuroscience of why the GOP is like that
Here's Chris Mooney, who has made it his mission to chronicle and then explain why the GOP is resolutely anti-science, summing up his life's work rather succinctly.
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Millennials love cities because they provide the one thing their boomer parents couldn’t give them
Why is Gen Y migrating to the cities? Because millennials are craving the things they didn’t get in their suburban upbringings, like connectedness and adventure.
