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Wicked wicks: Ask Umbra on paraffin candle disposal
How to dispose of toxic tapers? Ask Umbra burns the candle at both ends to find out.
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Are vegetarians more fun in the sack?
Apparently vegetarians do eat meat. Data from the online dating site OKCupid indicate that vegetarians enjoy giving oral sex more — or anyway, they say they do. There are all sorts of causation and correlation-based theories we could attempt here, but we'll just let your imaginations run wild. We'll simply note that, inevitable confounding factors […]
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Zip decoding: Can one Seattle area serve as model of diversity?
A south Seattle zip code once touted as the most diverse in the U.S. exemplifies the challenges and rewards of cultivating multicultural neighborhoods anywhere in the country.
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How dense: Tea Party rages over smart growth
Brave Tea Party members know the United Nations will begin their global totalitarian government takeover at the local level. So they're taking the battle against conspiracies like denser urban areas, linked transit systems, and smart land use to the front lines: regional planning commissions!
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Teaching kids to love nature and buy less stuff
Kids are getting the sort of education that guarantees they'll soon be fighting each other, Hunger Games-style, for Earth's dwindling resources. The solution is to cram everyone in America into Berkeley, California, say the authors of the new book The Failure of Environmental Education. (I'm paraphrasing.)
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Busting myths about China's one-child policy
Joe Biden's latest gaffe thrust China's population policy into the headlines. Let's seize this opportunity to set a few things straight.
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Letter from prison: Tim DeChristopher speaks
From a prison in Utah, climate activist Tim DeChristopher speaks out with a handwritten letter to Grist extolling the power of words.
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Biden doesn't support China's one-child policy, and neither does any other American with power
Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put foot firmly in mouth last week while talking about China's one-child policy. Top Republicans jumped all over his goof, but they were just grandstanding.
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Liner notes: Ask Umbra on ditching garbage bags
What if making more waste just isn't your bag? Ask Umbra gets trashed to find out.
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Our new favorite city is inside this guy's brain
Okay, so this is more amazing folk art than realistic urban design, but think of it as your Friday 10 minutes of Zen. Jerry Gretzinger has been making and remaking his incredibly detailed maps since 1963, and he's basically generated an entire alternate universe. In this mini-documentary, he details his complicated creative process, which is […]
