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Dolphin at Sea World rises up and bites the hand that feeds him
Feeding the dolphins at Sea World is a totally fun, once-in-a-lifetime experience … until the dolphins decide they care more about eating the fish than the integrity of your arm.
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Community Solar Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Sunlight falls almost anywhere, in every community. So it would make sense for any number of people in that community to team up to harness the sun and make clean, […]
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Nanoparticles in your food? You’re already eating them
What's engineered in a lab, added to processed foods, and never labeled? If you thought GMOs were mysterious, try nanoparticles.
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How Walmart is devouring the food system
One out of every four dollars Americans spend on groceries goes to Walmart. Get more scary facts about Walmart and food.
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Friday music blogging: Father John Misty
Joshua Tillman is your basic aimless white boy who washed up in Seattle in the early ’00s and started writing songs. (Kinda like me, if blog posts were songs.) He […]
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North Korea claims to have discovered an ancient unicorn lair
It was bound to happen sooner or later, what with all those unicorns running around.
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World’s largest aquarium criticized for capturing endangered dolphins
The biggest aquarium in the world has opened in Singapore. It features 25 bottle-nosed dolphins who had been living pretty happily in the wild.
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New Poll Finds Ratepayers Strongly Oppose Duke Energy Coal Boondoggle
As state regulators prepare to make a major decision on the future of a proposed Indiana coal plant with a $3.5 billion price tag, this week the Sierra Club and […]
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Sen. Jeff Merkley on the (surprisingly nontrivial) chances for filibuster reform
There's been talk of reforming dysfunctional Senate rules for years. This time, says Sen. Jeff Merkley, it may actually happen.
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Artist plans to explode a tree on the National Mall
It sounds like a lovely idea -- possibly the only excuse we’ll ever buy for setting a tree on fire.
