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New app lets you hack the streets 27 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
Sick of fighting for cycling space on streets crowded with SUV-wielding soccer moms? Worry not, Good Citizen: The interwebs are here to help. Now you can redesign your city’s streets, leaving ample ro...
We’re already sick of climate change — and getting sicker 27 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
If there’s any doubt remaining in your mind that climate change is a plague on humanity, Linda Marsa will take care of that for you. Marsa is a longtime medical writer. She’s made a career as a muckra...
Brilliant proposal: Name hurricanes after obstructionist lawmakers 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Activist group 350 Action doesn’t just stand up for the climate — it stands up for innocent people named Andrew, Sandy, and Katrina. Why should those names be tarnished? Instead, we should be naming s...
Government officials shut down 4-year-old’s vegetable garden 27 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
We’ve written before about how city officials are waging a war on gardens. But it’s not just big cities that are overlooking the opportunities of replacing manufactured lawns with useful veggies and h...
Four ways to get the most out of Twitter 27 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
Twitter is dangerous. Each time you toss a thought out into the world and receive a response, your brain releases a burst of endorphins, as though you took a little bump of cocaine. You can get hooked...
Girl steals bike back from bike thief 26 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
A young woman in Vancouver found her stolen bike posted for sale on Craigslist, so she contacted the thief posing as an interested buyer, took the bike for a test ride — and just kept riding. The wo....
Explained in 90 seconds: How climate change fuels wildfires 26 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
From the Rim fire currently engulfing California to the Black Forest fire that burned more than 500 homes in Colorado, wildfires are becoming more destructive. In this video, Matthew Hurteau — assista...
Your dishwasher can clean dishes and make dinner at the same time 26 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
As long as you’re using a dishwasher to wash dishes (which can be an energy saver), you might as well double up and cook dinner at the same time. Intrepid home cooks have long known that a dishwasher...
Is the NSA surveillance program really about spying on environmentalists? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
At the Guardian, Nafeez Ahmed, executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development, has an idea about what might be driving the massive expansion of the NSA’s domestic surveillance p...
Trombone-shaped gutters turn rainfall into music 26 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Does rainfall on your apartment building sound musical, or more like God is flushing the toilet? For lucky Dresden hipsters, it’s supposedly the former, thanks to funky gutters shaped like horns: Huf...
