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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 […]
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PETA is starting a porn site
PETA has finally decided to drop the pretense that they're about something besides ladies in underwear. When .xxx domain names go into action in September, your friendly neighborhood animal rights crazies will be first in line -- and they presumably don't just intend the site for closeups of cow udders and literal beaver shots, but for the barely-clad, barely-legal college students that have become their trademark.
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Ask Umbra on whether balloons are eco-friendly
Is there such a thing as a balloon that doesn't blow? Ask Umbra bursts a few bubbles.
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Cool new game is like SimCity for the whole environment
Is environmentalism a GAME to you? Does it look like some kind of GAME??? Oh, it doesn't? Well, it could. Upcoming game Anno 2070 lets you go all Sims on the fate of the planet.
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Biodegradable urn helps you push up daisies
Now you can say, "I'll go green over my dead body!" and not have to worry about people thinking you've lost it. Designer Martin Azua's Bios Urn pries eco-friendliness from your cold dead hands, by using cremains to help nourish a tree seed. The urn is made from cellulose, coconut fiber, and peat, and it already contains […]
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Danish-style driving at Legoland California
Pedestrians! Transit! Street vendors! Are we in suburban America anymore?
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In a world of 7 billion, what does the typical person look like?
Here's a new take on the "new normal." National Geographic has run some calculations on our population averages, now that we're staring 7 billion in the face. The verdict: The most typical human right now is a 28-year-old Han Chinese man — there are over 9,000,000 people in the world fitting that description! — who […]
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Living large — and healthy — on the bike
Bicycle transportation, despite its importance to anti-obesity campaigns, isn't necessarily a recipe for weight loss. It is, however, exactly what public health advocates should be promoting instead: An excellent way to get and stay healthy, no matter what your body type.
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The young and the carless: Ask Umbra on how to get rid of your car
Want to ditch driving for better ways of getting around? Ask Umbra has good ideas for getting rid of that hunk of metal that’s been weighing you down.
