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They’re genetically modifying goats to create human breast milk substitute
You know that human breast milk is very important for babies’ development. (If you don’t know this, go ostentatiously bottle-feed a baby doll near a farmers market! It will be […]
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What is this talking otter trying to tell us?
I never realized this before, but it turns out otters can talk, and furthermore they sound just like Ike from South Park. This one also seems mildly irked by human […]
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Number of bees in Queens man’s yard exceeds population of Queens
New York legalized beekeeping in 2010, but that does not mean that it was cool with city officials when they discovered that a guy in Queens named Yi Gin Chen […]
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Rush Limbaugh says Obama manipulated hurricane forecasts to delay GOP convention
The conservative radio host spins out a truly wacky conspiracy theory.
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Viewer Trust Requires Forecasting the Facts
Why do people watch the local weather report, anyway? That was the question floating just below the surface of last week’s 40th annual broadcast meteorology conference in Boston. Just like […]
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Record drought sends cattle hoofin’ East [VIDEO]
American expansion took ranchers West. Now the drought is forcing them back East in search of greener pastures.
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Massive explosion at oil refinery in Venezuela leaves 41 dead
The massive fire destroyed hundreds of nearby homes. Local residents complained of a gas smell shortly before the accident.
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In New Legal Initiative Against Cheese Maker, FDA Seeks Oversight Over Entirely Local Operation
At first glance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-year legal assault on Estrella Family Creamery in Washington state appears entirely vindictive. The FDA seems intent on using its enormous […]
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Threatened sea lions are being killed off to save threatened fish
This is a pretty complicated Sophie’s Choice-esque eco-problem brewing in the Columbia River at the base of the Bonneville Dam, in the Pacific Northwest. California sea lions are protected. But they […]
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An oceanographer, a marine chemist, and a couple of geologists walk into a bar …
The Slow Ride Stories gang descends on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in search of a punchline for this joke -- and a few answers to life's persistent questions.