Jim Meyer
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Baltimore, MD, United States
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Marvel superheroes take the day off to be terrible New York City tourists, just like you
Marvel Comics is releasing an awesome run of 15 New York City-themed variant covers highlighting their heroes’ city-living adventures. → Read More
Meet your favorite new green(ish) cars
New at the Detroit Auto Show: the new Chevy Volt, the all-electric Bolt, and plug-in and hybrid cars from VW, Mercedes, and Hyundai. → Read More
Blackfish, dwindling revenues sink SeaWorld's CEO
A film shot on a shoestring has gone from a publicity problem to a serious financial threat for the corporate theme-park giant. → Read More
Whatever, Tesla, this guy just invented a real flying car
The Terrafugia Transition will go down in history as the first ever commercially available flying car AND the worst name ever given to a product of any sort. → Read More
Eugene from the Walking Dead is apparently running for Congress
The dude leading the fight against the zombie apocalypse just took a page from the GOP's climate change playbook. → Read More
Honey, climate change is shrinking the kids
A new study finds that rising temperatures have downsized mountain goats by 25 percent in just 30 years. Cute, but not good. → Read More
New climate time machine is not a DeLorean, but it's almost as cool
The new software gives researchers a look at storms of the past. It also eliminates the danger of traveling back in time and accidentally kissing your mom. → Read More
Belgian brewery plans beer pipeline. Residents pray for spill.
The two-mile pipeline, connecting the De Halve Maan Brewery to its bottling plant, would cut truck traffic on the streets of Bruges by 85 percent. → Read More
Nissan just built a plug-in El Camino, and it hauls a lotta kale
Engineers have turned a Leaf into a redneck hippie’s dream car. We're calling it the El-ectric Camino. → Read More
Climate change puts out the welcome mat for invasive species
We turned the thermostat up, now lionfish are inviting themselves over for the all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. → Read More
Blue whales are making a big comeback, we think
One population of blue whales seems to be back up to pre-Moby Dick levels, but what about the rest of them? → Read More
Media coverage creates oil spill amnesia -- so don't read this!
News accounts of eco-disasters give us a false sense that everything is going to be OK. Because we really, really want everything to be OK. → Read More
Skip the Shark Week mockumentaries and watch real sharks on these live cams instead
Since the Discovery Channel is just making stuff up, we've put together a list of the best real-life shark cams. Call it The People's Shark Week. → Read More
Rather than killing sharks, this town moves them away from human-infested waters
Recife, Brazil, has taken a shockingly non-hysterical approach to reducing shark attacks. Fly fishers everywhere call it catch-and-release. → Read More
Australia responds to shark attacks by ... attacking sharks first
Reacting to an uptick in fatal great white shark attacks, the country’s Conservative Party has decided to kill any shark that comes anywhere near the beach. → Read More
Shark Week without sharks is just Week
We kill 100 million sharks a year -- many of them just for their fins. If we keep this up, Shark Week is going to be just a whole lotta blue. → Read More
Fabien Cousteau pulls a Spongebob to live at the bottom of the sea for a month
This grandson of Jacques just lived in a James Bond-style undersea capsule, studying the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs. → Read More
The global warming “pause,” explained by way of a cheeseburger
Turbo-charged trade winds have kept the hot side hot and the cool side cool, according to a new study. Sadly, it’s not gonna last. → Read More
Will people care about climate change if it happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away?
Climate change? BORING, says this scientist. That can be solved, however, with a little help from Star Wars. → Read More
This gigantic urban "skyfarm" looks like a tree and grows food for the masses
With roughly 13 acres of hydroponic growing space, this thing looks like something straight out of some techno-utopia. → Read More