Hawaii bans plastic bags
The island state is giving businesses two years to adjust to a world without plastic shopping bags.
Spring Back Recycling: Saving mattresses from being thrown away while creating jobs
Spring Back Recycling combines environmentalism with social justice by hiring previously incarcerated people to recycle used mattresses.
Combat juggling: Nerdiest sport ever?
Combat juggling pits contestants against one another in a (nearly) no-holds barred battle to be the last one with clubs in the air.
Pig Chase: European farmers playing video games with their pigs
Pig Chase is an innovative new video being developed that will be played by both farmers and their pigs. (You read that right, it's a video game for pigs.)
Japanese office tower built with a road going through it
Check out Japan's Gate Tower, famous for the highway that runs right through the heart of the office building.
The day the Earth passed through Halley's Comet
Find out what happened back in 1910 when the Earth passed through the tail of Haley's Comet.
Is Reddit the bestest website on the interwebs?
The social news site Reddit is quietly growing into a highly influential website able to move millions of people to take action on things like protesting SOPA/PIPA laws while at the same time being the go-to site for pictures of cats and puns.
Watch: Animals play with tablet computers
This video is a great compilation of animals chasing mice and flies, playing the piano, and otherwise swiping their way around iPods, iPads and other handheld devices.
Watch: Time-lapse of Toronto tower construction
Watch as time-lapse photography and tilt-shift focusing makes huge building projects look like miniature movie sets.
Vanishing Cultures: Using a 35-foot-long camera with six foot high negatives to photograph America
Vanishing Cultures is a project that will use a massive camera to photograph all 50 U.S. states, resulting in prints that will be more than 20 feet high.
