<![CDATA[io9: Washington]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Washington]]> http://io9.com/tag/washington http://io9.com/tag/washington <![CDATA[A One-Ton Metal Mammoth Made from Old Farm Equipment]]> Drop what you're doing — this is more important. Oregon sculptor Jud Turner has built a life-sized model of a Columbia mammoth skeleton, he's done it with 95% recycled materials (mostly old farming equipment and agricultural tools), and it's probably the most jaw-droppingly bad-ass thing I've ever laid my eyes on. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877904&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A real-life Deadpool is patrolling a small city in Washington state]]> Real superheroes usually create their own crime-fighting monikers, but one freelance do-gooder in Wenatchee, Washington (a.k.a. "The Apple Capital of the World") has assumed the mantle of Marvel Comics' "Merc With A Mouth," the deranged assassin Deadpool. Malefactors beware. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5806519&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?]]> What will the New Yorks, Londons, and Tokyos of tomorrow look like? Will they be technological Edens, grim dystopias, or entirely obliterated? We look at science fiction's take on the future of today's cities to gauge our urban future. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5361171&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Radioactive Wasps Swarm Out Of Former Nuclear Test Site]]> Workers excavating radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site in Washington — which was part of the Manhattan Project — have been finding thousands of radioactive wasp nests, spawning a blizzard of atomic stingers. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5292744&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Volcanoes can Stop Global Warming]]> Known for spewing liquid rock, ash clouds, and noxious gases into the atmosphere, volcanoes seem unlikely candidates for solving Global Warming. But the rocks the fiery mountains leave behind may be exactly that, according to scientists at Columbia University. They say that sequestering carbon dioxide in volcanic rocks beneath the ocean may be the best way yet to socking the CO2 away, out of the atmosphere, and making sure it never haunts us again. More »
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