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We’ve come a long way from the days when the only produce we took the time to buy organic was rasberries. Still, you can’t pay for organic fruit and veg with listicles (one day!), so every trip to the grocery store culminates in a heated town hall-like meeting where every member on the produce aisle [...]

Far be it for us to assume that the folks to the right of the political aisle don’t care about the environment. After all, even crazy libertarians have an irrepressible green thumb. Not only that, but some Republicans in American politics might actually merit the moniker “environmentalist.”
Of course, by “some” we mean 6, and by [...]

Before you deem some hapless celebrity a total tool, we’d recommend reading mental_floss’s listicle of 13 Patent-Holding Celebrity Inventors. Otherwise, you might say that Marlon Brando was a batty and obese fool in his later years, when in fact he patented some sort of drumming device in 2002.
You might also think the Jamie Lee Curtis [...]

Especially with web video, when a moment of boredom is enough for viewers to lose interest and click away, educational and informative texts have to be extra-cool to keep people watching. In this edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at some particularly successful examples. We hope you enjoy (and are somewhat enlightened by) [...]

Just in case you’d forgotten that today is Earth Day, we had planned to whip together a listicle of various fun and unsual globes for the occasion. That proved such a good idea that somebody else has done it for us, which is why we point you in the direction of Environmental Graffiti’s list of [...]

Who says educational videos and semi-informative cartoons have to be ugly and boring? Yes, video art has come a long way since the crude animations of our elementary school years. In this second edition of our weekly video art showcase Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we offer these 3 Cute and Informative Animated Shorts as proof.
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We’re still plotting our first solar-powered product purchase, but with all the wacky doodads made to run off sunlight we have to admit the choices are a little bewildering. should we get something useful like a solar-powered mouse for our computer? Or, do we get something that’ll really impress all the folks at the office, [...]

This morning EcoWorldly brings us one of the saddest listicles we’ve read in some time, featuring images of 11 Extinct Animals Photographed Alive. As they put it, statistically our current era is “the 6th major mass extinction in the planet’s history.” It’s not surprising, then, that so many animals have died since the invention or [...]

Though it’s difficult for us puny humans to comprehend, most natural processes take milennia to unfold. So even though we invented movie cameras to slow down lightning-fast phenomena, they can also be used to speed up frustratingly slow events. Witness, for instance, Wired Science’s listicle of the Top 10 Time-Lapse Nature Videos, our favorite of [...]

As anybody who watched the BBC’s Planet Earth series will tell you, animal conservation funds and programs are fraught with all kinds of bureaucratic caveats and requirements. Though we clearly have the money and resources to save entire species, arguments about how to fund such initiatives and how to most effectively carry them out are [...]