Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Mysterious ocean ‘crop circles’ are actually built by fish
These structures look like the print of a massive octopus wearing fashionable shoes, but they're actually pufferfish sex palaces.
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Important study: People eat fattening foods when they know they’re gonna die anyway
I bet you’ve been going around thinking that death row prisoners choosing their last meals usually make do with a salad and a stick of sugarless gum. Well, science is here to rescue you, poor benighted soul, with a definitive study finding: People prefer final meals with a lot of calories. The researchers analyzed the […]
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This is the most beautiful snow art we’ve ever seen
Simon Beck walks around for days to create his fractal snow patterns, and they are astonishing.
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This is the world’s first liliger, and yes, it is magical
Kiara, born at a zoo in Siberia, is half lion and half half lion half tiger. It makes sense, honest. (Well, as much sense as lions and tigers having sex.)