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Rags-to-Riches Story Sees Human Compassion and Social Media Turn Homeless Painter into LA’s Next Big Artist

[ad_1] Richard Hutchins Sometimes the distance between fortune, fame, and ruin is just fire, as Los Angeles painter Richard Hutchins discovered after his Santa Monica studio caught fire. However, thanks to the power of social media, Richard also understands another distance: the one between homelessness and stardom. In a real-life story from wealth to poverty…

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Mussels Can Help Filter Microplastics Out of Our Oceans Without Harming Themselves

[ad_1] Rather than spending money on a water filtration plant, constant filter feeding of mussels is being tested as a potential large-scale application for cleaning up microplastics in our oceans. Contradicting its humble evolutionary stature, the mussel can do something humanity could only accomplish by spending millions on equipment, and that is cleaning microplastics less…