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Sorry to harsh your mellow, but dolphins aren’t regularly getting high on pufferfish
The internet is, like, SO EXCITED that dolphins are JUST like us: Not only do they get Starbucks and pump their own gas, but they get high too! Yyyyyeah not so much.
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Super-rich Californians formed a nonprofit to protest bad smells
Wouldn’t it be cool if the hella-wealthy were as concerned about air pollution from their SUVs as they are about stink from sea lions?
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8 million acres of China’s farmland are too polluted to grow food
The area's about the same size as Belgium.
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New York developer tears down a huge, productive community garden in the middle of the night
The city leased the land to a developer to build a concert venue.
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These piglets glow in the dark
Scientists in China transferred jellyfish DNA into pigs.
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Now you can plant your garden by firing a shotgun into the ground
Nothing says “contemplative Sunday afternoon” like walking around your backyard with a firearm.
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Maybe your 2014 New Year’s resolution should be eating vegan mayo
Apparently this stuff really IS better than mayo. Or so swears one Slate writer.
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Ask Umbra: Could you settle the debate over dishwashers vs. hand-washing?
A reader insists she can scrub circles around even a super efficient dishwasher. Umbra brushes up on the basics.
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When climate change sets in, these will be the only snowmen we have left
They're not made out of snow.
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Here’s where to go if you want to find a deformed frog
It took a decade, but now scientists have identified three spots that are most likely to yield freak frogs.
