Why It Is Possible to Walk on a Lava Flow (But You Still Shouldn't) | Wired Science | Wired.com -
There’s been some buzz about a video of a fellow “running up a lava flow.” Normally, Wired Science blogger Erik Klemetti would ignore videos of people doing dumb things, but he realized that although this guy did run up the lava flow, it actually wasn’t as crazy as it seems. DISCLAIMER: This isn’t to say you should ever do what this guy did.
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We love fashion. But the clothes we buy in the UK come at a terrible cost. Millions of workers around the world suffer poverty wages and exploitation, producing cheap fashion for our shops. This can’t go on. We demand a fashion industry that respects workers’ rights. Our government must act now to protect the people who make our clothes.
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