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18 Incredible Umbrella Art Installations From Around The World

Spring has sprung, and so have all the umbrellas! Our good friends over at Crooked Brains wrote an article about colourful umbrella art; we were so inspired that we compiled our own list of 18 examples of wonderful umbrella art to help you get through those dark, dreary days when the sun just doesn’t want to show up.

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Scotland Makes It Rain: $20 Million Prize for Renewable Energy

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond upped the ante for renewable energy today in a lecture to the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. by announcing a $20 million prize for renewable energy that draws from the ocean. Image from acastellano on flickr

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Can Bacteria End Drought?

I was one of the unenlightened people that thought we knew how rain works. Thunderstorms over Brazil, captured by the space shuttle Challenger in 1984 I assumed that rain was essentially the result of water vapor condensing in clouds and falling to earth. I never once considered [...]

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