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Friday, February 22
Book A Night At This Homeless Hotel To Live Like People On The Street
Photo by: Håkan Ludwigson

Book A Night At This Homeless Hotel To Live Like People On The Street

Photo by: Håkan Ludwigson

In Sweden, you can go online and pay to book a nice spot on a bench or in a park, and find out how the other half lives. (But mostly to raise money for the homeless. You don’t have to sleep outside if you don’t want to.)

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To Make EVs Cost Effective, Make Them Part Of The Grid

To Make EVs Cost Effective, Make Them Part Of The Grid

The idea of vehicle-to-grid technology (where idle electric cars use power from their battery to help power other things) has yet to take off, but the military is about to try it. If it works, it might be the best way to lower the price of electric cars for everyone.

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When Will It Be Time To Actually Do Something About Climate Change?

When Will It Be Time To Actually Do Something About Climate Change?

Written by: Terry Tamminen

The response to the latest climate bill shows that few people on one side of the aisle seem at all willing to engage in discussion about how to stop the problem.

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How Downtown Las Vegas Is Reinventing Traditional Workspaces

How Downtown Las Vegas Is Reinventing Traditional Workspaces

Written by: Clair Byrd

In a city that doesn’t have that many places for a company to start, the burgeoning entrepreneurial scene in Sin City has to create its own work options.

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This Air-Powered Car Gets 81 Miles Per Gallon

This Air-Powered Car Gets 81 Miles Per Gallon

Peugeot Citroen’s new C3 VTi 82 will have what they’re calling an air-hybrid system. Will it be the first car to take air power to the mainstream?

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The First Housing Community For Autistic Adults Has An Organic Garden, A Greenhouse, And Hot Tubs
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The First Housing Community For Autistic Adults Has An Organic Garden, A Greenhouse, And Hot Tubs

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Can Sweetwater Spectrum create a new model for caring for those with autism as they grow older?

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This Beautiful Wooden Pedestrian Bridge Was Crowdfunded When The City Couldn’t Pay

This Beautiful Wooden Pedestrian Bridge Was Crowdfunded When The City Couldn’t Pay

In Rotterdam, a new bridge connects two parts of the city that were previously cut off by roads with heavy traffic. But it’s not a city project: Each piece of wood bears the name of the person who helped pay for it.

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The Melting Pot Of New York, Seen In Its Multilingual Tweets

The Melting Pot Of New York, Seen In Its Multilingual Tweets

Mapping the languages of everyone using Twitter in New York shows the insane diversity of the city’s spoken languages and also where both tourists and local foreign language speakers are congregating.

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