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From GlennBeckistan to the Citadel, The Week in Crazytown Design
Plus LEED Platinum monster houses, shipping pallets and colorful igloos
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10 Wacky Kickstarter Bike 'Innovations' You May Never See
Bicycle innovations are booming - but even the best ideas can't always get Kickstarter funders to part with their cash. Take a look at these ideas and ask yourself - good, bad, or just weirdly conceived?
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Nature Blows My Mind! The 6 Longest Bird Migrations
These birds make some of the world's longest migrations, and you'll be shocked at how many thousands of miles they rack up.
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Acura Updates NSX Hybrid Supercar Concept
Fans of supercars looking for some eye-candy, the updated Acura NSX Hybrid Concept might be for you. It'll never make much difference for the environment, but it's nice to see engineers working on fuel-efficiency rather than V12 engines.
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Make a Steampunk Solar Night Light in 10 Steps
A cheap solar garden lamp, an old sports trophy, and a little woodworking know-how is all you need to create this cool solar night light for your home.
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The Week In Design, From Oscar Wilde to Derek Zoolander
With a cute cabin in the woods and the London Underground in between.
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Beautiful Fiat 500e Electric Car Gets Best-in-Class 116 MPGe Rating from EPA
Let's take a closer look at the Fiat 500e electric car, the latest small EV to get efficiency ratings from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Nature Blows My Mind! The Science Behind Magical Northern Lights
Some things have felt like magic for millennia, but science has unraveled the mystery behind the aurora borealis or northern lights.
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9 Crowdfunded Solar Powered Gadgets: Where Are They Now?
We like to feature innovative ideas for solar powered gadgets that are crowdfunded on sites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, but do you ever wonder what happens after the campaign is over? Let's take a look at how nine are doing now.
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On Sesquicentennial of First Tube Ride, a Look at the Incredible Design Influence of London Underground
It's just over a hundred years since Frank Pick started working there, and his influence has been felt around the world ever since.
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Shocking! Thousands of Mutilated Shark Fins Drying on Hong Kong Rooftops
Tens of millions of sharks are mutilated and left to die slowly each year so that some affluent people in Asia can each soup. This has to stop.
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8 Artists Transforming Abandoned Dolls into Surreal Art
These artists reclaim and recycle orphaned dolls and their parts headed for the trash, and reincarnate them into new forms.
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2012: The Year in Pee and Poop
Another year down the drain: From pee-powered generators to pigeons that shit soap, it's been quite a year for toilet-related stories. Here are some of our favorites.
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Nature Blows My Mind! The Extreme Abilities of Elephant Seals
You'll be surprised to learn just what these odd looking animals are capable of.
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The Green Workplace in 2012: Standing Desks, Home Offices, and the Future of Work
We are just beginning to see how changes in the way we work are affecting the designs of where we work
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The Most Inspiring Art of 2012
There has been some great art on TreeHugger the past year. These are the pieces that inspired (or wowed) me most in 2012.
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20 Top Tech Stories from December
The most popular stories in technology from the last month. Catch up quick!
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The Design Stories of 2012 That Will Resonate in 2013
What we learned from last year and will look for in this one
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Study shows a walk in the park fixes a fuzzy brain
The evidence keeps rolling in: when you need to clear your head, the ...
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Build your own log lounge chair for $30
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Consumer Reports: Tesla Model S is 'best car we've ever tested' (Score: 99/100)
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Do shipping container houses make sense for disaster relief housing?
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