New York City has been preparing for climate-borne threats to the transportation system for years.
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Manhattan, Shaken and Stirred
Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the East Coast—especially New York City and New Jersey—last night. Here’s a collection of photos documenting much of the damage.
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New York Dispatch: “The Place Is Drowned”
Hurricane Sandy sends a brutal message to the city.
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Frankenclimate
Although the election season has been devoid of climate change talk, Hurricane Sandy makes our role in increasingly extreme weather patterns impossible to ignore.
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The Superbabies Are Coming
Maybe not any time soon, but eventually
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Make Your Own Gun!
3-D printing could bring small-scale mass production to mass murder.
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The First Call Is Free; the Rest Are a Fortune.
Pressure mounts for prisons to improve their outdated and costly phone systems.
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You Can Hide, But You Can’t Run
The first legged robot that can run faster than Usain Bolt.
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Rep. Akin and Fun with Fake Facts
C’mon, ladies. Stop lying. You know you wanted it.Â
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Corn, Corn Everywhere, But Not a Bite to Eat
Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report on the state of the country’s corn, and the verdict is not good. The report-the first that estimates production based on surveying the fields of U.S. farmers-shows that farmers are on track to produce 10.8 billion bushels of corn this year, a 17 percent […]
