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Study: Men recognize cars, women recognize birds
A Vanderbuilt University Study on gender and observational skills reveals strange facts about what men and women recognize.
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This New Zealand river is officially a person
A river in New Zealand now has person hood status -- we're all so relieved, since everyone treats people great.
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Join us for a Twitter chat about green slime
Did toxic blue-green algae make your summer a bummer?
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Freaked-out climate scientists urge other freaked-out climate scientists to speak up, fight Man
Can we make the radical changes needed to stave off climate chaos? No, say scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows, not "within orthodox political and economic constraints."
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Epic video shows the migration of hundreds of thousands of hermit crabs
OK, yes, the word “epic” is sorely overused to mean “something that is awesome on an awesomeness continuum that runs roughly from cornflakes to supernovas.” But when I say that […]
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Chicago plans to eliminate pedestrian deaths
Walking is good. Getting hit by cars is not. Chicago hopes to increase the former by decreasing chances of the latter.
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The prettiest road spill you’ll ever see
Paint spilled all over the highway outside of Manaus, Brazil
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Stay out of the water: A toxic algae slideshow
As summer comes to a close, as many as 20 states have reported green slime caused by industrial agriculture in their lakes and waterways. As these photos illustrate, it's a problem that has become hard to ignore.
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The Arctic could be ice-free by 2016
All Arctic ice could vanish by 2016. Yes, yes, this probably brings unpredictable consequences for all humans, but at least we'll have access to all that oil. See you on the Lido deck!
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Dumpster gardens make your block look prettier because trees, and uglier because dumpsters
A Brooklyn man wants to beautify Brooklyn with dumpster gardens that aren't really that beautiful.
