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Kids compete to name kid-killing asteroid
Whether or not you spend much time worrying about 1999 RQ36, the asteroid that might hit Earth in a couple hundred years, surely everyone agrees: If a giant formation of rock […]
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The man without a plan: Romney has no real food and farming platform
Even when pressed, Mitt Romney has very little to say about food and agriculture -- unless it's a question of food safety, in which case he wants to let Big Food off the hook.
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The Pope and his weird hat have a new electric car
Pope Benedict is considered the Green Pope. This does not mean that his weird hat is green, though that would be really cool. It means that he cares about the […]
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Heirloom melon and tomato gazpacho [Recipe]
Want to impress the guests at your next dinner party? This refreshing seasonal soup offers a blast of intense flavor.
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Oil on Gulf Coast after Hurricane Isaac reveals risks of offshore drilling
Images of oil leftover from 2010's BP spill washing up on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Isaac serve as a sad reminder that it’s impossible to clean up a major marine oil spill.
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Firefighters rescue adorable bobcat kitten from wildfire
Firefighters working to contain a California wildfire found this baby bobcat walking alone in circles by the side of the road. There was no trace of a mother bobcat, plus she […]
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Mesmerizing real-time map of the world’s planes makes air travel look like a fungal infection
Eugh, what’s that swarming all over the surface of the planet? It looks like an insect horde, or maybe some kind of crawling fungus, but no, it’s just us in […]
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World’s oldest message in a bottle has been found in Scotland
In 1914, a Scottish scientist named Captain C. Hunter Brown dropped 1,890 bottles in the North Sea as part of a science experiment. So far 315 of these bottles have […]
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This new bike grows when your kid grows
In response to the pesky but unavoidable fact that children tend to grow over time, Spanish bike company Orbea has designed a child’s bicycle that grows with them.
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Middle schoolers convince L.A. school district to ban styrofoam
Anyone who thinks that kids don’t care about anything but eating uncooked ramen and playing video games clearly underestimated the kids of Thomas Starr King Middle School in Los Angeles. […]
