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London’s going to power 40,000 homes with used kitchen grease
You know how you're not supposed to pour oil and bacon fat down the drain? Before that oil and fat gets discarded, the city's going to collect it and use it to run "the world's biggest fat-fuelled power station."
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Baby pig in a sweater and socks is the world’s cutest knitwear model
There is no reason for this snoozing baby pig wearing socks and a sweater. No reason except COME ON, BABY PIG WEARING SOCKS AND A SWEATER.
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Paris will harvest energy from its marathon runners
On Sunday, 40,000 runners will expend A LOT of energy running all 26 miles of the Paris marathon. But for approximately 0.06 percent of the course, not all of that energy will go to waste.
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Newly discovered species of spider is as big as your face
Have you ever been to Northern Sri Lanka? If you haven't, don't go now, because they have just discovered a new type of tarantula there and the thing is huge.
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Resistance was futile: True confessions of a fallen vegan
We join our heroine in week three of a monthlong experiment in plant-based living. All is not well in Veganville.
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American kids still pretty lead-poisoned
More than half a million kids under 5 are suffering from high blood lead levels, according to the CDC.
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We really want to live in this floating Finnish village — and thanks to climate change, we’ll eventually have to
They're building some energy efficient floating condos in a little town in Finland. Maybe we will learn Finnish and retire to one and drink aquavit forever.
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Make an awesome kid’s bike by ruining an IKEA stool
If you put it together right, IKEA's Frosta is a simple stool. If you put it together wrong, it's a cute kid-sized bicycle.
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Take our quiz to figure out what kind of chicken is right for you
Modern Farmer has a guide to choosing a chicken. The only problem: It wasn't in Cosmo quiz form. We fixed that.
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If your food wasn’t fake enough already, now you can spray paint it gold
As a rule, we do try not to eat anything that has "ethanol" in its list of ingredients.
