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See-through fish reminds us that nature is way, way weirder than we can cope with
Those dark circles on the front of its face? Those aren't eyes ...
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Portland and Seattle are getting special machines to sweep out bike lanes
It's no fun at all to ride a bike through a slippery pile of wet leaves. Actually, it's kind of terrifying.
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Wisconsin is solving icy roads like it solves everything else: With cheese
Wisconsin has an overabundance of a particular type of liquid waste -- cheese brine.
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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.
