Respect your elders. (Last week: boobies, birds, and Big Coal.)

The Danish — with their bike-friendly cities, copious vacation time, free healthcare, and low income inequality — are the happiest people on the planet:

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Harrison Ford confronted Indonesian officials about climate change and illegal logging. Because he’s still a badass at 71.

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Even Mathletes have trouble with math if their political beliefs get involved:

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Retiring farmer says he can’t stand 20-year-old farmer wannabes:

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Watch out, squirrels: Yale is hunting you down:

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According to Naomi Klein, big green groups are a bigger problem than climate deniers:

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