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  • Six drinks to avoid slipping down your gullet [SLIDESHOW]

    Here at Grist we like to think we’re looking out for you guys, so before you stock up on refreshing sippables for your summer potlucks here’s a small checklist of beverage bandits looking to pee in your pool party. Cheers! Photo courtesy racineur via Flickr Fuze Refresh “Peach-Mango” The only thing more confusing than Peach-Mango […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Grist president gets a pie in the face

    Here at Grist, we are berry grateful to all our lovely, generous readers who donated during the May 2010 “Save our endangered journalists” fund-raiser. We were thrilled to hit our mark of 2,000 delicious donations. Behind the scenes, we set our own challenge: Our President and Founder, Chip Giller, offered to let us throw a […]

    Grist staff Uncategorized

  • The mystery BP Twitterer revealed!

    Leroy Stick is the brains behind a fake BP Twitter account called BPGlobalPR that’s racked up more than 180,000 followers. Need to Know‘s Erin Chapman grabbed an exclusive on-camera interview with him at the TEDxOilSpill conference. Stick (an alias) began feeding his updates to humor-starved news junkies on May 19 and — like the oil […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Why drilling moratoriums are a ‘morally false choice’ [VIDEO]

    Should offshore drilling be banned? Jon Meacham of PBS’s Need to Know asked Lisa Margonelli, who writes about the global culture and economy of energy, at Monday’s TEDx Oil Spill conference. She explains her view that Americans don’t have a right to drive cars and use gasoline unless we’re willing to drill for it in […]

    Grist staff Politics