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Lycomato's Ingestible Sunscreen Based on Tomatoes So You Don't Turn Into One

Summer is in full force and so is our desire to head to the beach and pool. We've heard about the dangers of chemicals in sunscreens, and for many reasons want to avoid them or limit their use. TreeHugger has also reported that sunscreens are causing bleaching in corals -- another reason to limit their use. And that sunscreens can transexualize fish. Ew.

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Arrested in Tibet, Naked Photos: World Record Tandem Pair Tell All

Bicycling in Lhasa, Tibet

After the news broke that all foreigners must leave Tibet, Mandy and Benny considered whether they would need to put their Hase Pino Tandem bicycle on a train. But things calmed, so they pushed on. Until their fears were realized: while mounting up after a night's rest hidden from view along the roadside, the police descended upon them. "Where had they slept? What were they doing?" Would the police understand that Mandy and Benny posed no threat on their peaceful tandem journey, circumnavigating the world and hoping to break the world record for the l...

Cartoonists Find Climate Change Not So Funny

Here's the winner of Earthworks 2008, a global cartoon competition, with 600 entrants from 50 countries. Earthworks organisers " hoped that the competition would stimulate cartoonists to use their pens and wit to help combat environmental devastation and give new impetus to our desperate fight to stop global warming." The winning cartoon, "Coat Star", is by Mikhail Zlatkovsky from Russia. Judges felt that this cartoon of a man indecently exposing himself to a pure and pristine universe says " 'This is the disdain we've shown our world'...we felt the sleaziness was appropriate to the topic."

Often cartoonists are putting themselves on the...