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A single sticker turns your bus commute into a monster rampage
All the monster sticker needs is a window on a moving tram or bus. The goal: Move your head so that the monster eats the heads of people (or dogs) that you pass.
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Tropical Storm Isaac scrambles GOP plans, heads directly for New Orleans
The most recent prediciton for Tropical Storm Isaac shows that it's due to hit New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Katrina's landfall.
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How Boston and New York hope to avoid becoming Atlantis
New efforts by both cities are trying to address sea-level rise before it becomes a big problem.
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What the Dark Knight knows about holding our urban lives together
"The Dark Knight Rises" might be a crazy movie full of plot holes -- but it understands the systems that serve as the vulnerable hearts of our cities.
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What other cities can learn from Seattle’s troubled ‘deep green’ building program
Three years ago, Seattle challenged developers to build the next generation of uber green buildings -- but few answered the call. What can we learn?
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Super-freaky train station design looks like a spider laying eggs
The proposed structure for a Vienna train station looks like a mutant pregnant insect depositing its egg sacs.
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Elephants in the room: Urban poverty, climate change, and other problems we love to ignore
When times get tough, Americans seem incapable of having rational discussions about our most pressing issues. As a result, they’ve been erased from the political discourse. The implications are downright ugly.
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Glow-in-the-dark solar bikes = rad
If anyone hits you while you are riding this bike, provided you are still alive, you would be totally within your rights to scream at them, "Are you blind?"
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America’s silent housing crisis calls for a fresh, greener approach
Habitat for Humanity has made a name for itself building new houses for poor people. Meanwhile, there is a silent crisis among those who can’t afford to keep up the homes they’re already in.
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Impress all your air-breathing friends with a car that runs on air
Look, down on the ground! It’s an orange mole with no face! It’s a Weeble that says "air" on the side! It’s an M&M with wheels! No, it’s an Airpod -- a car that runs on compressed air.