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Environment + The Body
The dangers of happy people
Happiness makes you sad, says science
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Environment + The Body
Solar Arabia
The oil kingdom wants to be the Saudi Arabia of photovoltaics
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Environment + The Body
Cloaking's real
The wolf in electromagnetic clothing
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Environment + The Body
Psychiatry's drug addiction
The science behind the "chemical imbalance" theory of psychiatry isn't holding up. An interview with Robert Whitaker
Photo via sydamarie.tumblr.com
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Environment + The Body
Occupint
The Jerry of Ben & Jerry's talks OWS, the Internet, and his activist son
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Environment + The Body
The energy fixers
Can seaweed and 1,000 foot high turbines kick our carbon habit? The government is betting millions the answer is yes
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Environment + The Body
Challenger Accepted
Fifty years on, man returns to the abyss.
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Environment + The Body
Rehab Happy Hour
Maybe we can cure alcoholism with booze.
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Environment + The Body
Why You Trippy
Here's the neuroscience behind a mushroom trip.
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Environment + The Body
MBTV: The Electronic Persecution of Jesus Mendoza
The closest thing to an actual X-File you've seen all day.
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Environment + The Body
Remote Resolutions
The NDAA has American drones burning out like it's the end of the world.
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Environment + The Body
On Air
Inside Mexico's DIY cartel radio.
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Environment + The Body
Rain(forest)ing Blood
Ah, the Amazon, where treehugging can get you murdered.
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Environment + The Body
Making Plastic With Mushrooms
When Eben Bayer gets psyched about mushrooms, it's because they might save the world. Everything else is a side effect.
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Environment + The Body
Bringing Architecture To Life
Mitchell Joachim is using organic and inorganic architectural systems to completely upgrade the way we think about building the places we call home.
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Environment + The Body
MBTV: The Body Farm
CSI: Miami has never looked faker.
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Environment + The Body
Feds Burst the Bath Salts Bubble
The newest illegal drug.
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Environment + The Body
Medicating Illegally
Do not let California's medical marijuana shutdown riff your chill.
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Environment + The Body
Saving Face
How China's first astronaut got knocked around pretty bad on his way back to Earth
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Environment + The Body
#OCCUPYWALLST #WINNING #sortof
A little violence gives a media boost to capitalism angst.
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Environment + The Body
TYLENOL MURDERS REDUX
Decades later, are we safer?
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Environment + The Body
Straight Killing Hurricanes
On Project Stormfury, which tried to stop a hurricane with an airplane full of silver iodide.
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Are the Dead Baby Pills Bullshit or Not?
Remember that really icky story about South Korean dead baby pill smugglers I wrote about awhile ...
May 18, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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All You Happy Assholes Make Me Want To Kill Myself
Here’s a paradox worth revisiting as I sit here paralyzed with a mean case of writer’...
May 17, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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(video)MBTV: Doctor Teller's Strange Loves
Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them big... (video)
Mar 07, 2012
by Alex_Pasternack
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NASA's Most Accurate Asteroid Survey Finds We're Not Doomed
Do you ever wonder what will bring on the apocalypse? Maybe you’ve heard that the Sun will one da...
May 17, 2012
by Ben_Richmond
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(video)Would You Rather Lose Your Hand or the Internet?
I suppose I can understand why someone, if forced to choose, would rather lose their hand than th... (video)
May 16, 2012
by Sean_Yeaton
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(video)The Kill Toys of SOFEX, Post-Arab Spring
VICE is no stranger to the Special Operations Force Exhibition, the annual meeting of military br... (video)
May 15, 2012
by Brian_Anderson
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Why is the Waning War on Drugs So Focused on Fake Weed?
A couple months ago Pat Roberston, the infamous televangelist generally making headlines for blam...
May 15, 2012
by Michael_Arria
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The Highs and Lows of Being Watched
Drop whatever it is you’re pretending to work on right now. Stagger outside and look at the sky &...
May 14, 2012
by Brian_Anderson
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Vacationing with Death Just Got Academic
Dark Tourism…it’s like rubbernecking with a hotel.
May 14, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Track Every Species on Earth with the Map of Life
There are nearly two million described species of animal and plant life in the world, with estima...
May 14, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Hot Links: Teens Sue Feds over Climate, Iran Bans Gmail
The hottest weekend link that you need to read.
May 14, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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(video)Here is an Entire Rap Video About Rooftop Solar Power
By and large, the hip hop community has remained curiously silent on the topic of rooftop solar i... (video)
May 11, 2012
by Brian_Merchant
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(video)Buzz Kill: The World Is Not Gonna End This Year
Newly uncovered hieroglyphs support the idea that the Mayans had a recycling calendar, rather tha... (video)
May 11, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Want to Solve the Obesity Epidemic? Stop Blaming the Obese
America is ridiculously fat. That’s not even been a surprise for years; 36 percent of the adult U...
May 11, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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How to Change Your Gender
Tom Gabel, lead singer of Against Me!, announced this week that he will transition to living as a...
May 11, 2012
by Kelly_Bourdet
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Saudi Arabia to Become the Saudi Arabia of Solar
When the nation that has so much damn oil that it became a ubiquitous metaphor for rampant abunda...
May 11, 2012
by Brian_Merchant
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What Does It Mean That Politicians' Views "Evolve"?
I don’t think President Obama suddenly had some kind of epiphany before his interview with ...
May 10, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Chimp Nut-Smashing Techniques Explain Our Proto-Culture
Conventional wisdom makes a big deal about the cultural gap that sets humans apart from apes – th...
May 10, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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In New York, It's Now Legal to Look at Child Porn Online
An appeals judge has just ruled that it’s legal to view child pornography online in New York, and...
May 10, 2012
by Brian_Merchant
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Nature Adapts to the Most Awful Shit
Motherboard covered fairly recently the evolved mating strategy of male bed bugs, which involves ...
May 09, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Humans Were Performing Brain Surgery 10,000 Years Ago
Our brains are a real mystery. Ignoring the Terminal Man era quandary of whether or not our brain...
May 09, 2012
by Derek_Mead
