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Design*Sponge: A Landlord’s Mission-Style, Midwestern Duplex

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After getting caught cheating on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions tests, the company is facing plummeting share prices, up to $18 billion in fines, impending lawsuits and the resignation of the company’s CEO Martin Winterkorn. Now, an analysis by Associated Press says that between five and 20 people might have died each year in the U.S. alone as a result of Volkswagen’s deceit. The software used by the firm allowed the cars to spew between 10 and 40 times more nitrogen oxides allowed by government regulations.

In this photograph by Ingo Wagner of @ap.images and @dpapicturealliance, Volkswagen rolls out a new shipment of cars at a terminal near the company’s plant in Emden, Germany on Sept. 30, 2015.

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M45 Pleiades - 12.5 min exposure - by Scott Ainslie Hubert

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Bosch Capdeferro - Casa Bastida, Sa Riera 2014. Via, photos © José Hevia.

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Nancy L. Stockdale

The Grand Canyon Time-Zero Project

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Lava flow gif set

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Hot pocket.

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A ranking of the world’s “most powerful” passports. 

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“Hova”  

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Ryan Salge. 2015

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The Sears Tower during construction, c. 1972. Upon completion, it was the world’s tallest building, a title it held until 1997. It was renamed the Willis Tower in 2009. Hedrich-Blessing Collection.

Read more about the building’s history.

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Quint by fishmonger71 via reddit

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Mt. Assiniboine, British Columbia Fritz Habermann

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SUBMISSION: ”No Name Design" (objects collected by Franco Clivia) at Werkraum Bregenzerwald

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so many wants

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Seven-year-old Allen has a problem many of us face: He would like to be half-man, half-cheetah, but he doesn’t know where to begin. Does the technology exist to give him the spots, speed, adorable nose and tail missing from boring, old human beings?

Sort of, says Nicola Barber, a geneticist at the University of Utah. (She also tells How To Do Everything that, “ethically, absolutely we should not be doing this,” but let’s just ignore that.) Hybrids are easier when the combined species are genetically closer, which is how we already have lion-tiger hybrids — tigons and ligers. We, too, thought they were just a thing in Napoleon Dynamite.

Barber says giving a human the speed of a cheetah isn’t going to happen, because that involves so many different genes that would need to be altered. There is hope for Allen, though. Spots are within the realm of possibility.

Listen to the latest episode of How To Do Everything to find out how.

Tigons And Ligers And Boys, Oh My!

Illustration by Justine Witte for NPR

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Starling by 1Voice1Life via reddit

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Lion of Lucerne, is a sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, France. Mark Twain praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world."

The dying lion is portrayed impaled by a spear, covering a shield bearing the fleur-de-lis of the French monarchy; beside him is another shield bearing the coat of arms of Switzerland. The inscription below the sculpture lists the names of the officers and gives the approximate numbers of soldiers who died (DCCLX=760), and survived (CCCL=350).

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Sol Lewitt

Graphite Gradient, hand drawn, detail @ Mass MoCa, 2012

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