Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Here’s a guy riding a bicycle the size of a shoe
This Russian video shows a man riding a teeny-tiny bicycle like he’s a bear in the circus. It is mesmerizing.
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This nine-foot kinetic sculpture of San Francisco is made of over 100,000 toothpicks
Scott Weaver’s “Rolling Through the Bay” is nine feet tall and seven feet wide, i.e. both taller and wider than my bathroom. It’s got four different paths for ping-pong balls to roll through it, tracing “tours” of various San Francisco landmarks. It took 3,000 hours over 35 years to finish. And it’s made of nothing […]
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McDonald’s tried to make ‘onion nuggets’ happen
Given the kind of stuff that gets the fast-food green light, it’s hard to believe that there are even more concepts that end up on the cutting room floor. But there are, and the McDonald’s Corporation’s archives manager Mike Bullington knows about all of them. The most shocking item in his collection of fast-food memorabilia, at […]
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Transit-obsessed dog hops train and travels 50 miles
Frankie the Jack Russell terrier settled on a window seat for his ride on the rush-hour commuter train.