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Failed Infrastructure Makes For Great Television

This story was originally published on December 14, 2020

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4/19/22 10:30AM

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A Brief History Of Gasoline: How Standard Oil Built Its Toxic Monopoly

Standard gave the government every piece of evidence on how corporations lie, cheat, and poison the country. It's…

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7/16/21 4:14PM

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A Brief History Of Gasoline: They Trashed Pennsylvania First

Part Two: The long and oily road, or everything you need to know you can learn from Pennsylvania

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6/21/21 10:25AM

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This German Amusement Park Is Inside A Nuclear Power Plant

In Germany, there is a fully developed nuclear power station built decades ago that was never put into service. One…

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10/12/20 3:40PM

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Here's Why A Monorail Kind Of Sucks

Remember all of those classic James Bond movies where the bad guys get around their secret lair in shiny chrome…

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Here's How Honda's 'Musical Road' In California Was Done Wrong Not Just Once, But Twice

Back in 2008, Honda wanted to be cute and destroy a stretch of California road with grooves spaced out to play “The…

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10/16/17 9:01PM

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Not Even The Mars Curiosity Rover Can Escape The Back Seat Driver

As the Curiosity rover crawls its way across the Martian surface, it has to deal with a team of over 20 people to…

Justin T. Westbrook

4/24/17 7:56PM

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