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Obama’s Building His Presidential Library On Chicago’s South Side
The Secret Service might be focused on how to design a better fence at the White House, but US President Obama’s foundation team is focused on the design of a different building: His presidential library.
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This Street Has No Lanes, Signals Or Signs — And It’s Safer For It
Imagine a street where pedestrians, bikes and cars peacefully coexist without any posted regulations or official roadway technology. Is this some autonomous car utopia of the near-future? Nope. This is a globally proven design for safer streets, which is finally making its way to the US.
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Some Museums Have Flesh-Eating Beetles That Clean Off Skeletons
An animal skeleton is made up of hundreds of tiny bones, many of which are too fragile to be handled by human hands. That’s why many osteology departments at museums have a special team exclusively devoted to the careful cleaning of these specimens: a colony of millions of flesh-eating beetles.
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Monster Machines: This New Electric Garbage Trucks Give Trash The Silent Treatment
You know how I know it’s garbage day? Because it’s 5am and it sounds like the trucks from Pump are getting busy on the curb. VROOOOOM, CRUNCH, SLAM, WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA, SLAM, CRUNCH, VROOOOOM. But some lucky Chicagoans will soon be able to sleep all the way through the night thanks to a new fleet…