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As far as the people of ancient Pompeii were concerned, dead bodies and trash were basically the same thing, at least in terms of where they ended up. And that isn't even the grossest place Pompeii put its trash. More »
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For the Artissma International Art Fair last weekend, German design firm raumlabor built the House of Contamination, an indoor structure made of garbage and appliances. The village isn't built to last, but it resembles some post-apocalyptic dwelling out of WALL-E. More »
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Somewhere buried under all those bags of trash is the Egyptian city of Zabbaleen, where garbage reigns supreme. It looks like an object lesson, warning us of some impending garbage apocalypse, but there's something entirely different at work. More »
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Wondering what gives Shirley Manson the experience to be able to pull off playing a hard-ass CEO in the new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Apparently, very tenuous logic, according to the former lead singer of Garbage: "You know, she's the CEO of a corporation that develops technology... As a musician, we're dealing with technology all the time nowadays so it's not such a stretch." Well, it was that or "she's a woman, just like me." [Comic Book Resources] More »
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People are good at spreading trash around the globe, and even our vast oceans are starting to fill up with (mostly plastic) refuse. Witness the North Pacific subtropical gyre, a floating trashcan the size of Texas. But outer space is closing the gap, according to a recent article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (thanks, TreeHugger). We've heard a lot about the threat space debris poses to expensive communications satellites (read: Pentagon is getting worried about damaging their pretty spy sats), but what about crewed flights? Tourists' flights into low Earth orbit are going to be bumpy rides if we don't get to fixing his problem soon. More »
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Quick intro to the hydrogen-economy paradox: The stuff could save our oil-addled asses, but curses! We have to burn oil to make the stuff. Enter researchers from Penn State, who have announced that they can use specially bred bacteria to make the most plentiful element in the universe from... Well, let's allow FOXNews to serve up the money shot: More »
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