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Bill Gates wants to make sexy condoms out of cow tendons
This is how your sausage wrapper gets made: with help from a California butcher.
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Your Splenda habit is bad for the earth
We pee out 90 percent of sucralose, and then it just hangs out in wastewater. NOT GOOD.
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Ask Umbra: Are my newfangled lightbulbs making my house cold?
A reader wonders if those old, inefficient incandescents were actually keeping his flat toasty. Umbra sheds a little light on the subject.
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These works of art are made out of dead bees
Artist Sarah Hatton collects dead bees, but we promise it's not some sick weird thing.
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Reading, writing, & arsenic: New Orleans school planned atop toxic dump
Louisiana continues a long tradition of planting schools -- particularly those serving poor, black kids -- on contaminated brownfields.
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This fancypants sofa bench is actually a rainwater collector
It slurps up rain and traps the water inside.
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This chicken coop used to be a 1970s police car
It's a clever bit of upcycling, and a clever bit of punning as well.
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This Pacific island has so much plastic pollution it might become a Superfund site
Part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge is being studied for potential Superfund designation, the first time plastic pollution has prompted such consideration.
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Meat-based diets linked with type 2 diabetes; vegans everywhere get smug
Guess we won't be having that bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich today after all.
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This video of a semitruck’s blind spot will blow your MIND
Sorry for the Upworthy headline, but seriously.