Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Exposed: Manufacturing conglomerate’s plan for moving humans off of Earth
Sean Ragan of MAKE magazine just posted this amazing graphic, which he tracked down after being mildly obsessed with it for more than a decade. It’s an “Integrated Space Plan” drawn up by Rockwell International, a conglomerate of manufacturing companies in the aerospace, electronics, and truck component industries. The plan was created in the ’80s, […]
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I promise you will enjoy watching this man get attacked by a bear
In fact, it may make YOU want to get attacked by a bear.
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Guam is entirely infested with spiders, and it’s all the fault of invasive snakes
The island of Guam has up to 40 times the normal number of spiders — on average, about one spiderweb every two feet during the rainy season. And if that’s not enough, it’s also infested with brown tree snakes. That’s not a coincidence. According to a study published in PLoS, Guam’s spider explosion comes from […]
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Apple’s massive solar farm looks kind of awesome from the air
Apple is building a giant solar farm to power a data center in North Carolina, and GigaOM has aerial shots that show just how huge it is. The pictures were taken by North Carolina television station WCNC-TV. At 100 acres, this is going to be the world’s largest privately owned solar panel farm — you […]