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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!
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Dad arrested after trying to pick kids up from school on foot instead of in a car
Apparently kids can be released to parents in cars or can take the bus home, but they are not allowed to walk home with their parents. Wha?!
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Cyclists are “longing” to be hit by cars, says wackadoo British politician
You have to be a special brand of irrational to think any cyclist WANTS to get hurt.
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Life sucks in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” because of climate change
You can blame a lot on climate change. Bigger wildfires. Bad health. The totalitarian hell and political repression in "The Hunger Games" franchise.
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How the Simpsons have secretly been teaching you math
Science author Simon Singh reveals the highly nerdy layer beneath the longest-running sitcom on TV.
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Kanye West says design can save the world; students respond
The hip hop superstar made a surprise visit to Harvard to talk about architecture, design, and a utopian future. We talked to the students who invited him.
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The week in GIFs: Mean Girls edition
Every day is a good day for Mean Girls GIFs.
