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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."
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Amtrak may start allowing pets to ride with you
Technically all the animals will be in kennels, but we're going to cling to our fantasy of being whisked through the countryside in a pile of cats and dogs.
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Artist displays chunks of real glaciers as sculpture
This exhibit at MoMA consists of glacier chunks, flown from Iceland, sitting in an artificially cooled room. Maybe not the most environmentally friendly statement.
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Watching a tornado victim find her lost dog will make you feel at least a little better for at least a minute
Thank goodness for one little bitty bit of good news.
