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These early 20th century nature drawings are like a bad acid trip
They start out all fun and colorful, and the world just seems amaaaaazing and full of beautiful creatures.
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Do we leave you stirred, not shaken? Then toast us with a donation!
Would you give just $5 to bolster Grist's defenses so we can stir more people into action?
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An Ethiopian zoo has lions unlike any others on earth
Zookeepers were convinced that these lions were really something special. And it turns out, they were right.
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Dolphin at Sea World rises up and bites the hand that feeds him
Feeding the dolphins at Sea World is a totally fun, once-in-a-lifetime experience … until the dolphins decide they care more about eating the fish than the integrity of your arm.
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Community Solar Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Sunlight falls almost anywhere, in every community. So it would make sense for any number of people in that community to team up to harness the sun and make clean, local power. Sadly, it isn’t as easy as it should be, as illustrated by the Vashon Community Solar Project in Washington State. The Vashon project […]
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Nanoparticles in your food? You’re already eating them
What's engineered in a lab, added to processed foods, and never labeled? If you thought GMOs were mysterious, try nanoparticles.
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How Walmart is devouring the food system
One out of every four dollars Americans spend on groceries goes to Walmart. Get more scary facts about Walmart and food.
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Friday music blogging: Father John Misty
Joshua Tillman is your basic aimless white boy who washed up in Seattle in the early ’00s and started writing songs. (Kinda like me, if blog posts were songs.) He released a series of solo albums under the moniker J. Tillman and started opening for like-minded whispery experimental folkies like Damien Jurado. From 2008 to […]
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North Korea claims to have discovered an ancient unicorn lair
It was bound to happen sooner or later, what with all those unicorns running around.
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World’s largest aquarium criticized for capturing endangered dolphins
The biggest aquarium in the world has opened in Singapore. It features 25 bottle-nosed dolphins who had been living pretty happily in the wild.
