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Bottle Opener For Bikes Is Printed To Order

Designboom showed this silly little thing, a bottle opener that fastens to the rails on the underside of a bike saddle. Designed by Jonathan Sabine and Adam Pickard of Chromoly in Montreal, it is also an eye-opener when you hear the price, forty bucks. But another eye-opener is the way it is made and sold: 3D printed out of metal to order…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bottle Opener For Bikes Is Printed To Order

Obesity, Chemical Exposure Causing Some Girls to Hit Puberty at Age 7, Study Finds

Photo via WLS Channel An eye-opening study profiled in the New York Times reveals that some girls in the United States are hitting puberty at abnormally early ages — sometimes at 7 or 8 years old. There are a number of suspected causes for this potentially dangerous trend, chief among them childhood obesity and exposure to chemicals. This gives us yet another reason to e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obesity, Chemical Exposure Causing Some Girls to Hit Puberty at Age 7, Study Finds