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Grist List’s best bike stories of 2012
From a bike made out of cardboard to one that sounds like a horse, here are some of the year's most popular tales of two wheels.
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Grist List’s best weird creatures of 2012
Just as good needs evil, and light needs darkness, and Mars needs women, cute animals would be nothing without weird, sorta ugly animals.
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Grist List’s best genius kids of 2012
You guys sure love precocious kids. Here are your favorites from the last year.
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Grist List’s best animal videos of 2012
"Before the year draws to a close, let us stroll together through our memories of ducks, walruses, and scary emus."
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The Gaits iPhone app turns your steps on New York’s High Line into music
This app makes walking and standing into meditative musical experiences,
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H&M lets you turn in old clothes for new ones
You can bring your old clothes to H&M to get discounts on new clothes. You can bring them anything. Even if it's ugly and really old.
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Going, going, gonzo: A famously twisted mind tackles the extinction crisis with a wicked pen
Ralph Steadman, the illustrator who collaborated with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, has a new book out about vanished species, both real and imagined.
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Energy conservation gets gamified
Businesses are using gamification to goad us into buying more junk. But some people are trying to harness online games for good causes.
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100 percent recycled bike is straight out of Portlandia
Do we actually have to tell you any more? It's a recycled bike. What, you're going to NOT get a RECYCLED BIKE?
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Marijuana growers endanger salmon, bears, and even dogs
The market for pot in California is booming, thanks to the legalization of medical marijuana, and that means bad news for the environment and critters.
