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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder

Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It’s hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder

Solar Panels Fatally Attractive to Aquatic Insects

Photo: Flickr , CC “Like going to the most amazing 3D movie you’ve ever seen and you can’t leave” A new study discovered that solar panels are apparently mesmerizing to certain types of insects (mostly aquatic). What happens is that solar panels reflect light in a way that is similar to how water reflects light, and this fools the insects, attracting them to the panels. “It’s like these organisms become dazzled to death,” said Bruce Robertson of Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners who l… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Solar Panels Fatally Attractive to Aquatic Insects