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What sort of magical thinking is behind the rumored TSA rule about keeping passengers seated during the last hour of flight? Do we really think the terrorist won’t think of blowing up their improvised explosive devices during the first hour of flight?

London, England

Hey, I like the CueCat! Did you buy any of these?

Yes, it’s a 70 minute long evisceration of a worthless movie from the last century. But it’s also one of the best explanations of narrative and movie-making I’ve ever seen.

The bulbs don’t burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.

When the global economy unravelled last year the Irish countryside was left with a lot of empty, unsold, and unfinished housing estates. This holiday season I thought it would be nice to celebrate these unique landscapes by making them into picturesque gingerbread-house decorations that will rot and eventually be thrown out much like the unfinished housing estates themselves.

Christmas is less than two weeks away, and if you’re inclined to celebrate the holiday season—Christmas or otherwise—it’s time to swap out your winter wallpaper for a holiday-themed one.

Up in the distance I could see a robot working. I zoomed with my camera and saw how it took some boxes out, then put others in. “They are taking the boxes to packaging and decoration,” Jan—one of the Lego PR guys in Billund—pointed out, “every time there’s a production run, computers order the robots to retrieve whatever boxes are needed, according to the number of bricks necessary for a set. Everything is done on demand,” he said with a big smile, proud of the efficiency of their system.

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Stimulating the “free service” of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems — carbon sinks —is considered one of the main, immediately available ways of reducing climate change. However, new greenhouse gas bookkeeping has revealed that for the European continent this service isn’t free after all.

I first thought Princen’s photograph was fake. How could this be real? Looking online for the location of the photo, Mokattam, i discovered that the image is authentic. It’s a hilly suburb of Cairo called Garbage City. The Zabbaleen, a community of mainly Coptic Christians, live there. Since the ’50s, they have been making a living by collecting, sorting and disposing of Cairo’s waste.

The invasive Asian Carp has been detected past the electric barrier on the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal, just 6 miles upstream of Lake Michigan. This is nearly 20 miles closer than previous tests had shown.