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Is This Weird Vegetable Part Going To Be The Next Kale?

Introducing the BroccoLeaf, a waste part of broccoli repackaged for your superfood consuming convenience.

People started predicting peak kale in 2012. The number of farms growing the leafy green had more than doubled; Bon Appetit named it the Year of Kale. But we keep eating more. Sales went up another 31% last year. Peak Kale is nowhere in sight. But Big Produce is not resting on its kale laurels. Instead, it’s on a quest: Creating the next kale.

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How Two Designers Are Revolutionizing “Asian Fit” Sunglasses

With Covry Sunwear, Athina Wang and Florence Shin have designed stylish sunglasses that actually fit.

When it comes to the basic design, sunglasses offer very limited options. For all of their variety in aesthetics—mirrored lens vs. no mirrored lenses, tortoise-shell vs. black, Wayfarer vs. Jackie O.—most sunglasses come in a standard fit that favors low cheekbones and high nose bridges. For designers Athina Wang and Florence Shin, this one-size-fits-all structure wasn’t cutting it, so they decided to design for a more diverse range of face structures with Covry Sunwear.

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See The Shrinking Of The Arctic Through Years Of Redrawn National Geographic Maps

In one incredibly dooming GIF.

Last week, the Obama administration released the final draft of its controversial Clean Power Plan, which calls for sweeping cuts in carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants. In his speech, the President illustrated the need for such a plan with a reference to how dramatically the National Geographic has had to alter its atlas to reflect the effects of global warming.

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Spy The Unsung Psychedelic Pop-Art Landscapes Of Roy Lichtenstein

A new exhibition chronicles the iconic artist’s lesser known fascination with sea and sky.

Roy Lichtenstein was once derided as the “worst artist in America,” but time has proven him to be synonymous with 1960s Pop Art and cemented him in the annals of art history. After all, good art typically challenges the status quo and sparks debate. The New York–based practitioner took low-brow subject matter—like comic books and advertising—and elevated them by into high art by pumping up the campy, dramatic elements on monumental canvases. While his cartoon-inspired pieces are best known, Lichtenstein also applied his sensibilities to one of the most traditional motifs: landscapes. And now, thanks to East Hamptons museum Guild Hall and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, they’re the subject of a new exhibition.

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Meet The Scary Little Security Robot That’s Patrolling Silicon Valley

The K5 never tires on patrols and only costs $6.25 an hour. But at least it’s not armed—for now.

Here’s why several companies are apparently considering hiring the K5 security robot, despite its strange appearance. It patrols your grounds continuously, no need for sitting down or going outside to smoke. It’s a “physically commanding presence,” warding off intruders and no-gooders. And, most importantly, it’s relatively cheap. At $6.25 an hour, it costs about one quarter of what mall-owners might normally pay for a human patrol.

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Inside The Microsoft Office Olympics

Dozens of competitors from 46 countries gathered in Dallas to test their mettle against the best of the best. Watch out for the armadillos.

The young contestants from across the world crossed the stage, decked out in shirts from their countries, flags draped over their shoulders. The air was thick with national pride.

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With Samsung’s New Phones, The Phablet Is So Mainstream It’s No Longer A Category

Now that the Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note5 share the same screen size, a really big phone is no longer a really big deal.

It was only in 2010 that Samsung introduced the Galaxy S, the first in its incredibly popular series of flagship smartphones. It had a 4-inch display, which was large for its time. A year later, however, the phone was dwarfed by the then-mammoth 5.3-inch screen on the first Galaxy Note. By 2011 standards, the Note was so large, it implied that it was aimed at a customer the size of an NBA center. And it popularized a new term—phablet—that indicated it straddled the line between phone and tablet.

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Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge+ And Note5: Almost The Same Phone, But Distinctly Different

The screen size and specs are the same. But one model caters to the mainstream while the other targets productivity-minded types.

Samsung being Samsung, it isn’t content to have one flagship smartphone. It wants to offer several of them. So today, less than six months after unveiling the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, the company is back with two more high-end models, which it’s announcing at its “Samsung Unpacked” event in New York City.

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