World’s Largest Rodent Shows Up in California, Spurs Viral Internet Craze (Video)
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Okay, so if you're on Twitter or read the blogs or pretty much go online at all during the course of the day, you probably encountered the R.O.U.S. meme spreading like wildfire yesterday. A man in Paso Robles, California had spotted and photographed what looked like a massive rat scurrying about in a waste water treatment plant, and posted pictures online of his discovery. The photos quickly went viral. Watch:
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Modern Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT or podcars, are finally being put to use in London's Heathrow Airport. I have called it a solution in search of a problem, and here they found it the perfect problem: getting people from one point, a parking lot, to a second point, the airport, on demand. Instead of having buses running all the time, one can call for a car when needed. It uses 50% less energy and is moving 800 people a day. Jim Witkin raves in the
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One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated con-man of the highest order. Such is not the case though for what the young Long Island lad has accomplished in a feat typically associated with much older individuals. As 
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Old toys rarely get a second chance for a new life. Most of them head to landfill without a second glance. But Jose Gomez-Marquez of MIT has come up with a way to hack old toys into medical devices for dealing with everything from diabetes to dengue fever, providing cheap solutions for developing nations all while reusing existing products. ...
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Maybe you've only been looking at your vegetable garden as a means to an end: An easy way to get organic herbs, produce, and edible flowers without a grocery-store spending spree or a lineup of tasteless, non-local goods.
But as these photos show, your garden can be so much more than that: An eye-catching geometric layout of herbs, a home for sculptural shrubs, a masterpiece of shockingly colorful foods, and a peaceful place for getting in touch with your inner gardener.
Read on for more inspiration and ways to turn your plain plot into the centerpiece of your yard.
