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Black widows found on grapes in several states; time to stop eating all food
Remember when a British lady found an egg sack of poisonous baby spiders on her banana? This will make you sigh with longing for those simpler times.
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Amsterdam is collecting pee from public toilets and dumping it on green roofs
Don't worry: They process it into a powder first.
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Mad scientists power a Christmas tree with sad, unloved Brussels sprouts
A team of U.K. scientists have taken 1,000 underappreciated Brussels sprouts and used them to power 100 LEDs.
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This might be the best bike prank video ever
Turns out some people will help you cut a bike lock, THEN ask if the bike belongs to you.
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Calling fowl: How to pick the most humane turkey for Thanksgiving
Heritage, heirloom, and organic turkeys all compete for a spot on your Thanksgiving table. But which one is best for your palate and the planet?
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12 vegetarian Thanksgiving dishes to make omnivores jealous
Thanksgiving is not all about the turkey, and we can prove it.
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These are the saddest school lunches we’ve ever seen
The best you can say about this, really, is that the decent school lunch food is about equivalent to decent fast food. The rest is even worse.
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Disaster housing made from water bottles solves two needs at once
The only catch is that disaster refugees will have to drink a lot of water, fast, if they want a roof over their heads.
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Ask Umbra: Are they going to lock me up for reusing my washwater?
A reader wonders if her gray water habit is going to land her in deep trouble. Umbra plunges in.
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Buy Sarah Palin’s SUV for a mere $10,000
You can’t drive John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign into a ditch, but here's the next best thing!