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Salt, sugar, and fat: Why we can’t quit junk food’s holy trinity
Michael Moss, author of "Salt Sugar Fat," talks to Grist about how these three ingredients make processed food so addictive -- for both consumers and companies.
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Spiders all over the world like to snack on bats
We now have evidence that spiders eat bats all over the world except in places without spiders or bats. This is scary, and kind of wrong.
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Watch a 9-year-old activist speak out against corporate interests taking over his town’s water
Nestle wants to extract water from the aquifer in Fryeburg, Maine, for the next 45 years. Elementary-school activist Luke Sekera-Flanders is fighting back.
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New York City’s subways will have giant touchscreen maps
Touch a station and the map will tell you how to get there! It's sort of like a giant Hopstop, except you can touch it.
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It’s the first day of spring! Here comes the toxic green sludge
Predictions of heavy spring rains bode poorly for the health of Lake Erie, where agricultural runoff is expected to cause massive algae blooms.
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Bears in Russia are getting high by huffing airplane fuel
Not to be a narc or anything, but animals get high a LOT. And these Russian bears have figured out how to get high off gasoline fumes.
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Mini-mansions are all the rage
Both industrial designers and industrious teens alike are engineering tiny paragons of sustainable living. Behold some of our recent favorites.
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Thanks for the oil, Iraq, here’s some cancer
Depleted uranium from U.S. munitions is suspected of causing a huge spike in birth defects and all kinds of cancers in Iraq.
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Why in the world are so many manatees dying?
Manatees are dying off both Florida coasts, and by God we want the culprit brought to justice! (It's probably us.)
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How scientists are bringing this weird, extinct, baby-barfing frog back from the dead
The frog DNA sat around for 40 years before scientists used cloning technology to bring the species back to life.
