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• Stranded penguin is going home
  by Jess Zimmerman. Here's your awesome for the day. A penguin named Happy Feet washed up on a New Zealand beach in June, and promptly made himself sick by eating a bunch of sand that he mistook for snow. It's not clear how he wound up 2,000 miles from his Antarctic habit...
• Facebook for cities: A social network for neighborhood improvement
  By Claire...
• Power in numbers: Crowd purchasing brings clean energy within reach
  By Rebecca...
• New large horned viper discovered, but biologists keep location quiet
  In a remote forest fragment in Tanzania, scientists have made a remarkable discovery: a uniquely-colored horned viper extending over two feet long (643 millimeters) that evolved from its closest relative over two million years ago. Unfortunately, however, the new species—named Ma...
• The Effect of Urban Heat Islands
  Cities are centers of human and industrial activity. They are also considered commonly centers of urban warmth or heat. Jacobson and Ten Hoeve are authors of a paper describing the research that will be published in Journal of Climate. The paper is available online now. The study...