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Climate change adaptation: So simple, a caveman could do it
A new study suggests that climate change propelled our ancestors to greatness. Could anthropogenic climate change do the same for us?
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Mesmerizing animation shows a full day of Earth’s weather patterns
The images come from NASA GOES-14 satellite, which monitors weather for NOAA.
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This poignant film will make you fall in love with cicadas
Turns out ooey gooey cicada babies are pretty cute, huh?
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Ask Umbra: Are clotheslines legal in Brooklyn?
A reader wonders if it's against the law to air dry her skivvies. She knows Umbra won't leave her hanging.
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Down with the clown: Third graders stand up to McDonald’s junk-food marketing
A growing chorus of parents, teachers, and kids are calling out McDonald's for its relentless marketing to kids.
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Awesome old cookbook shows that the 1904 raw food movement was really into meat and cream
Eugene and Mollie Griswold Christian make a lot of the same arguments for healthy living and raw food that you hear today. Only they make them in turn-of-the-century style.
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Tornadoes — another argument for American exceptionalism
Three-fourths of all tornadoes worldwide touch down right here in the U.S. of A. Why are we so lucky?
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Idiots try to eat dinner on iceberg, get blown out to sea
Four American tourists were rescued after trying to have a picnic on an iceberg.
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McDonald’s Mega Potato is three-quarters of a pound of fries, the highest-calorie item on the menu
As Zimmerman's law of fast food states, gross food can only get grosser and weirder.
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This secret, invite-only bar was built inside a NYC rooftop water tower
N.D. Austin, the organizer, describes this project as "transgressive placemaking."
