Funny commentaries on the hidden messages in the shapes of the states and Canadian provinces, such as, "what makes Oklahoma so desperate to touch New Mexico?" [BoingBoing]
Because New Mexico is so cool, that's why.
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This article presents an astonishing statistic -- over 1 billion birds in the USA alone die every year by flying into plate glass windows and skyscrapers that are covered with glass. It turns out there is a solution to this however. A billion bird deaths must be large enough to have a negative impact on bird populations and the entire ecosystem.
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The RX400H's gasoline engine, which gets an assist from an electric motor, is expected to get 36 miles per gallon in the city -- an 80 percent improvement over Lexus' comparable standard-engine SUV, the RX330. The RX400H will go 600 miles on a tank of gas.
