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From Felled Tree to Dining Room Table: Furniture That’s Sustainable and Unique

The team at Meyer Wells. Image Credit: Meyer Wells If you’ve ever been upset to learn that a tree you loved either fell or had to be chopped down, you’ll be glad to hear about Meyer Wells , the furniture company based out of Seattle . Operating under the motto “furniture with modern roots,” Seth Meyer and John Wells take felled trees and turn them into custom wooden tables. So now you can see your beloved tree live on as a personal, uni… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Trolls Die Young: Nasty People Have Higher Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Cave Troll from Lord of the Rings via Wikipedia Dan Blankenhorn of Smart Planet was thinking of his commenters when he suggested that “trolls die young”, based on a study researchers of the US National Institute on Aging . They looked at 5,614 Sardinians from four villages, and found that “those who scored high for antagonistic traits on a standard personality test had greater thickening of the neck… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Trolls Die Young: Nasty People Have Higher Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke