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A mixtape love letter to the parks that birthed hip hop
Here are some great rap songs that celebrate the role of parks in city life and the history of hip hop.
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Welcome to the urban jungle: Nature in cities is Grist’s July theme
This month, look at how nature gets into our cities and under our skin, even where we least expect it.
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Follow live tweets from the world’s first tweeting honey badger
Honey badger just don't care ... about anything except live-tweeting from the Johannesburg Zoo.
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“Catastrophic failure”: Adventures in car sharing, part 2
Turns out that, as a business proposition, the sharing economy can be a pretty risky one.
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Floating pool in NYC’s East River is simultaneously cool and stupid
Haven't you always wanted to swim in a pool that's in a river? It's like the turducken of summer.
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Attention rich people who want to waste fuel: Uber will be offering helicopter rides to the Hamptons
For one day, fancy machers with beach homes will be able to summon a car that will drive to a helicopter that will take off and land in East Hampton.
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After you die, your remains can help save a coral reef
It makes at least as much sense as burying a person in the ground and putting a stone on top.
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15-year-old creates flashlight that runs on body heat
The flashlight gets its power from plates that create electricity using a heat differential -- one side needs to be hot and the other cool.
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Farmers are feeding their pigs marijuana so you can eat pot-infused bacon
It's recycling for foodie stoners! A pig farmer and butcher have paired up to feed pigs the dregs from a weed dispensary and then make marijuana pork chops.
