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Graft punk: Breaking the law to help urban trees bear fruit
The Guerrilla Grafters play Frankenstein with ornamental city trees by splicing branches that yield fruit for the common good. But not everyone's happy: Their pursuit of fruit isn't exactly legal.
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XKCD has some amazing facts about oceans for you
Randall Munroe, writer of the web comic XKCD, has put out another one of his dizzyingly meticulous infographics, and this one is about the depths of various bodies of water. No, wait, don’t leave, it’s actually really cool!
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Dr. Seuss is the reason the bees are dying
Yeah, you heard me: Dr. Seuss killed the bees. No, wait, stay with me here: See, pesticide kills bees, and, says Mother Jones, a lot of the credit for our widespread use of pesticides may go to Mr. Lorax himself.
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10 foods with more ammonia than pink slime
Ammonia isn't just in pink slime. Here are 10 common foods that have even more of the stuff (including bleu cheese).
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Watch a robot make a 3D-printed chair out of old refrigerators
Designer Dirk van der Kooij makes cool, modern-looking plastic furniture out of defunct refrigerators and other plastic waste. The plastic is ground up, then squeezed out like soft serve into a computerized pattern.
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More radio silence
Hey there, just checking in real quick to say that I’m traveling yet again — I’m in Yale to do a “Master’s Tea,” which I very much hope involves crumpets and holding one’s pinkie in the air — so posting will be light-to-nonexistent today and tomorrow. I should be back in the saddle on Wed.
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Chart: The mind-boggling rise in Asian coal consumption
You may have heard that all that coal we’re not using in the U.S. is going to China. (Thanks, Warren Buffett!) At Wonkblog, Brad Plumer has posted a chart about this that will boggle your mind:
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Young people drive 23 percent less, bike 40 percent more than they used to
The kids are all right: Between 2001 and 2009, the average number of miles that young’uns spent tooling around in a car dropped from 10,300 miles per capita to 7,900.
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Critical List: It’s been really, really warm; polar bears have a weird disease
A look at the news of the day.
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New Orleans school cultivates a generation of forward-thinking farmers
Nat Turner and the hardworking young crew behind Our School at Blair Grocery are bringing healthy soil and fresh food to the Lower Ninth Ward.
