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Meet the Kansas Lawmaker Who Wants to Ban the Act of Planning for Future...
A lawmaker in Kansas who is also a contractor for 30 oil and gas companies wants to ban sustainability itself. Yes, Rep. Dennis Hedke (R) wants to ban, as the bill he's proposing defines it, any "mode...
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The Solar Power Industry Is Finally Producing More Energy Than It Uses
Photo: Russ Ferriday/Flickr Last year was by all accounts a very good year for solar power, with the US market growing 76 percent according to the latest stats from the Solar Energy Industries...
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The Awesome Possibilities of the New See-Through Brain
A team of neuroscientists announced a pretty cool creation on Wednesday: a completely transparent brain. Using a new technique involving something called hydrogel, the visionary crew turned an entire...
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Reddit's Alexis Ohanian Renews Effort to Kill CISPA Dead
Image via YouTube / Alexis Ohanian Remember CISPA? It's the piracy-invading cybersecurity bill that Congress shelved last year after widespread outrage over provisions that would allow companies like...
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The Mystery of Mars's Disappearing Atmosphere Is Being Solved by Curiosity
An artist's impression of Mars' atmosphere escaping, via Wiki Commons Curiosity arrived on Mars last August ready to answer a number of nagging science questions. One big question is finally getting...
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Rehtaeh Parsons, Amanda Todd, and the Cyber-Failures of the RCMP
Rehtaeh Parsons: 12/09/1995 - 04/07/2013. via Facebook. Vice Canada -- Rehtaeh Parsons, a teenage girl from Nova Scotia, was taken off life support on Sunday after a failed suicide attempt. Her mother...
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Watch These Drones Swarm-Dance to the 'Harlem Shake'
They say it's not about the meme--it's how you hack it. The last thing this year's SXSW needed was another post-viral take on Baauer's "Harlem Shake". Ask any of the guys behind Eyes & Ears, a...
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There's a Great Plastic Garbage Patch in the Great Lakes, Too
Sunrise on Lake Huron, via Stefan/Flickr By now you probably know that our oceans have become polluted with all sorts of plastic garbage and debris. While the Great Pacific Garbage Patch moniker...
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Most Americans Don't Think Robots Fight in the Military, Assist the Elderly,...
What's this then? Image: Wikimedia A new poll reveals that some Americans are optimistic that robots will be doing our dirty work by the year 2030. The survey was conducted by YouGov/Huffington Post,...
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See How Your Mail and Packages Move, Thanks to This Clever Hidden Camera Video
Like it or not, logistics rule our world today. Whether it's shipping goods back and forth between US and China or receiving a package from one of Amazon's enormous warehouses, the world's economy...
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What's the Trouble with 'Pipe Trouble,' the Satirical Game That's Inflamed...
Via Vice Canada -- Pipe Trouble is an arcade puzzle game, funded by Canada's public broadcaster TVO, designed to enlighten its player to the ongoing conflict regarding pipeline development in Canada....
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Video: Drones Over Austin
Motherboard's SXSW drone takeover didn't stop at Oblivion Drone Day at VICELAND. We tagged along with Colin Guinn, CEO of the North American branch of DJI Innovations, a small Hong Kong-based drone...
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Greenland Kicked Out the Pirate Bay, and No One Else Wants It
Image via Flickr / m.a.r.c. The Pirate Bay is having a hard time. Faced with an impending threat that the Swiss government would shut down its .se domains, the Pirate Bay moved the entire site over to...
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Welcome to Garbage Patch State, Where Plastic Rules
via Flickr / Kevin Krejci Today in Paris, a new nation was born. In the modern way, the news reaches America via Facebook, with these historic words: it is with great emotion that we announce that...
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Those Solar Panels on Your Neighbor's Roof Are Killing a 100 Year-old...
These men are killing utility companies. Image: Flickr, CoCreatr, CC For 100 years or so, we've gotten our power pretty much the same way: a utility sends electricity from a big, centralized power...
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How the Psychiatrist Who Co-Wrote the Manual on Sex Talks About Sex
Dr. Ray Blanchard knows sex. He is handy with a penile plethysmograph, which he uses to measure a guy's penis to see if he’s turned on. What turns Blanchard on? Science. Why do we care? Because he...
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If the IRS Wants to Read Your Email, the IRS Will Read Your Email
Image via Flickr / Tyfferz The Internal Revenue Service already isn't the most popular government agency. The last thing it needed to happen right in the dark heart of tax season, especially when many...
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The Man Who Says He Owns the Moon
Becoming a planet owner is a lot easier than you might think. All you have to do is take a quick glance at an astronomical map, pick out whichever planet or moon tickles your fancy, tell everyone you...
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A New Species of Brazilian Porcupine Is Likely Endangered Already
The porcupine in question, Coendou speratus, in a photo provided by the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. A team of Brazilian researchers found a brand-new species of tree-dwelling porcupine in the...
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This Summer Is Going to Be Just as Hellishly Hot as Last Summer
Image: Flickr It's going to be another scorcher. And by scorcher, I mean another sweat-drenched bog-fest that'll have your pits going damp the minute you step outside your air conditioned bunker of an...
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