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16-square-foot apartment is a vision of tiny housing taken too far
We love tiny housing — it’s less wasteful, and so adorable! But there’s a limit to how small a space you can live in and still not go insane. We butted up against it with the 78-square-foot apartment, but this video about a (fictional, but plausible) Hong Kong apartment called King’s Cube plunges past the […]
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Today in astronomical weirdness: This is your last chance to see the transit of Venus
Manhattanhenge is cool, but it happens twice a year. Ditto Supermoons. Solar eclipses are less common, but nothing like today’s astronomical weirdness. This afternoon and evening, Venus will pass in front of the sun, for the last time in your lifetime unless you are a robot or a Time Lord. Here’s why you should try […]
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With renovated studio, LifeEdited sells simplicity to millionaires
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's new venture, LifeEdited, markets a high-end version of downsizing to those who can afford it.
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Flash mob proves conclusively that cars are the most annoying ever
Flash mob factory Improv Everywhere stages weird, transcendent little moments of cooperation, synchronicity, and pantslessness (they’re the ones behind the No-Pants Subway Ride). But their latest effort, the Car Alarm Symphony, doesn’t do much besides prove that parking lots, already a blight on the landscape, could always be worse.
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Ask Umbra: Are we about to wreck space, too?
A reader asks if it’s ethical to mine asteroids. Umbra takes us on a voyage of discovery.
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Facebook will sell me to you, and you to me
Facebook is going to try to turn personal relationships into an advertising medium. That will be a big turn-off -- and will spur the search for better alternatives.
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Galaxy, right ahead! The Milky Way’s on course for a head-on collision
One day, this is what the night sky will look like. Yup, that’s a galaxy (Andromeda, to be specific) headed straight for … our galaxy! Andromeda’s rushing towards us at the crazy fast speed of 250,000 miles per hour. Luckily, it is a galaxy far, far away, and so it will take 3.75 billion years […]
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Global warming could wipe out the goth population
As a former goth, I had to love this article from British satire site NewsBiscuit about the latest species to be threatened by climate change: the normally nocturnal, tree-dwelling Common Goth. Britain’s Goth population, identifiable by its distinctive eye markings, peaked at around 90,000 in the 1970s, but since then has been driven out of […]
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Umbra’s second helpings: Staying green with sunscreen
How can you prevent turning red while staying green? Umbra takes on this burning issue.
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Resisting the splurge: The travails of an urban hunter-gatherer
Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, quit shopping, cold turkey, for a month. Well, almost. What do you think -- in the No New Stuff challenge, did she pass or fail?
