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Is PETA Butter full of … vegans?
If peanut butter is chock full of peanuts, and PETA is chock full of vegans, then the only logical conclusion is that PETA Butter is chock full of vegans, no?
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WTF should you make for dinner?
The adventures of daily life are many and varied and often don't amount to much. Sometimes it's just a matter of wanting to know what the f**k I should make for dinner that day. So thank goodness for this dirty-mouthed kitchen helper.
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IBM lets you use your laptop to solve the global water crisis
Your laptop can join IBM's Worldwide Community Grid, a global network of linked personal computers that's doing important water experiments.
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Ask Umbra on dangerous cosmetics and regulatory loopholes
When one reader learns about all the toxic chemicals in everyday personal care products, she turns to Umbra for help. One way to stay safe: DIY.
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Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire
You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there's no end in sight."
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Six ways to save time and energy in the kitchen
Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to get your kitchen organized. Here are some tips that will help you cook delicious meals from scratch quickly and easily, and waste less of that seasonal produce you're buying.
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Buy a breath of 'Fresh Air' in Hong Kong
Oxygen bars are so Japan circa 1997. Huffing canisters of "Fresh Air" is where it's at. Take a look at the breezy infomercial.
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How will you keep walruses from learning to fly?
That's what I consider the core message to be of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's cute animated video about climate change's effects on sea creatures. See what I mean.
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Colorado town won't play nice with bicyclists — but its casino will
You may remember the small town of Black Hawk, Colo., for its recent ban on cycling because bikes were getting in the way of all its casino traffic. Which makes it the perfect destination for a bicycling group's next getaway, says one Black Hawk casino.
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Discovery hostage taker was a population-obsessed eco-wacko
It's not often that natalism makes the news -- and with guns and hostages, no less! But population is in the headlines today thanks to James J. Lee, the eco-wacko hostage-taker.
