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The Cruelest of All Factory Farm Products: Eggs From Caged Hens

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 03.16.2013 | Green
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Bruce Friedrich

You wouldn't be able to move, so your muscles and bones would deteriorate. Your feet would become lacerated. You would go insane. That's precisely what happens to laying hens.

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Miniature Mammal Inspires Robot's Whiskers

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.23.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Shrew, Whiskers, Tony Pipe, Shrewbot, Tony Prescott, Machine, University of Bristol, Robot, Sensory System, University of Sheffield, Science News

What does one of the world’s tiniest rodents have to say about robot design? Quite a lot, actually. British scientists have come up with a bot that ...

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World's First Removable, Biodegradable Gum?

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 10.15.2011 | Green
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Worldwide, humans chew some 560,000 tons of gum per year, according to a report in Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine. Though there are no of...

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Found: The Oldest Art In United Kingdom?

Posted 10.02.2011 | Arts
Read More: Old Carving, England, Rock Art, Green, Science, Paleolithic, UK Arts, University of Bristol, Old Art, George Nash, Clifton Antiquarian Club, Art, Caves, Paleolithic Art, Cadw, Cave Drawings, Creswell Crags, Dr George Nash, Wales, Arts News

A 14,000 year old carving found in a cave on the Gower peninsula, a part of South West Wales, may be the oldest example of rock art in Britain. The ca...

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