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The future I want: Reproductive rights in a changing climate
Family planning and sexual health must be part of the conversation at the Rio Earth Summit if we want to build a more just and sustainable world.
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Google is making a Street View for hiking trails
Lucky Google employees get to hike around all day with a camera and call it work, so that you can know what to expect when you get out on the trail.
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1915 document shows that penguins are extremely sexually depraved
England’s Natural History Museum at Tring recently rediscovered a 1915 report about penguin behavior that had been buried for almost 100 years — because it was considered too X-rated to be suitable for publication. Which, okay, yes, people from 1915 were prudish, but also, penguins are getting up to some freaky shit.
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Bereaved husband sues NYPD for failing to investigate pedestrian death
Last summer, 28-year-old Clara Heyworth died while crossing the street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn — she was hit by a car piloted by an intoxicated driver who only had a learner’s permit. The NYPD never conducted an investigation, and the driver received only a violation for driving without a license. Today, Heyworth’s husband, Jacob Stevens, […]
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Ask Umbra: Is my single-serve coffeemaker wasteful?
A reader frets about his caffeine-delivery equipment. Umbra gives him a dose of reality.
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Teaser: Ridin’ bikes with U.N. suits
Full story coming Monday. But here's a glimpse at what a very short bike ride with well-dressed UN envoys looks like.
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Transit workers stop train to save toy bunny
Casey Carey-Brown, a Boston woman who blogs about her daughter “Roozle,” has chronicled a harrowing story about childhood trauma narrowly averted by big-hearted transit workers. It concerns Roozle’s toy bunny Nummy, pictured above. (Roozle is the human child, Nummy is the bunny. I just don’t want you getting confused and thinking this was almost way […]
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New York kids need a doctor’s note to use sunscreen in school or at camp
Once upon an innocent American summer, sun-kissed cheeks were all the rage for lithe, beautiful children freckling in the clean air. But now we know that evil sun rays will kill you — not now, but later, with skin cancer — and that kids should wear sunscreen pretty much any time they go outside for […]
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The coolest photos of Earth from space we’ve ever seen, hands down
NASA astronaut Don Pettit takes pictures from the International Space Station, and they are mind-boggling. In the long-exposure photos, cities appear as streaks of light as the ISS orbits Earth at Ludicrous Speed. And those blotches? Those are lightning. Holy shit.
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Umbra’s second helpings: Untangling the garden hose problem
A reader wonders how to find a hose that's not made of PVC plastics. Umbra's not going to water down this answer.
