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According to BusinessWeek, microfibre rags can remove both dirt and germs, and clean “surfaces mechanically, not chemically, by scraping them with microscopic precision.” In fact, they completely eliminate the need for harsh chemicals like Tilex, Clorox, Windex, Ajax and all those other nasty cleaners that end in “x.” So why are the cabinets under our [...]

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On October 26, 2007, the CBC ran a story on the ZENN, a clean, silent, fully electric car made in Quebec. The award-winning car was being sold in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, but had been waiting a staggering 18 months for Canadian safety approvals to come through. Two weeks after the CBC story shamed [...]

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From Science News: You bite into a piece of candy and find a cricket leg. Eewwww. Or notice that raisin in a bowl of cereal has legs and wings. Bam, down the disposal it goes. Such filth in foods is supposedly illegal, but the Food and Drug Administration’s actual tolerance is far from zero. FDA [...]

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In an icy, remote underground fortress that would appeal to even the most discriminating Bond villain, the Norwegian government has taken on a strange project that just may save the human race. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is nestled into a frigid Arctic archipelago 78° north of the Equator, and it aims to collect and [...]

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I’m still a little rankled by the National Post‘s blatant character assassination attempt on David Suzuki – a national treasure, as far as I’m concerned – and its all-out assault on the science behind climate change. So here’s a neat little video put together by Greg Craven, a high school science teacher in Oregon, that’s [...]

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