Odd & Other
What It’s Like To Live In a Box, Homeless, In New York City
Newcomers pay four-figure rents for studio apartments in this neighborhood. The actor Heath Ledger died just five blocks away in January. Mr. Foley parked his box here last summer, hard by the curb and hidden by nothing, and gave himself an address on the side with a black pen: 340 Broome Street.
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Gray Wolf Taken Off Endangered Species LIst
Gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains have been removed from the nation’s list of endangered species, signaling a conservation success story. Or the premature end to needed protections. Or both, maybe.
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College Student Works In Lab To Fight HIS OWN Cancer
Josh isn’t the first person to work in a lab to find a cure or treatment for his own disease. A cystic fibrosis victim named Jeff Pinard has done work on the genetics of his affliction. A Tulane medical student named Andy Martin studied a cancer called sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma, which is even rarer than […]
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The 5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming
Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming.
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Due to Climate Change, Pythons Will Eventually Colonize U.S.
Python habitat will grow dramatically as the U.S. warms up over the next century, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey and National Parks Service study.
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World’s Most Evil Fish Invades Britain
Behold the giant snakehead! It attacks humans.
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Researchers Discover New Way to Store Information via DNA
Researchers at UC Riverside have found a way to get into your body and your bloodstream. No, they’re not spiritual gurus or B-movie mad scientists.
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Self-healing rubber bounces back
A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.
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