Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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World’s biggest bus is 98 feet long and can fit 256 passengers
This monster of public transportation is actually three buses chained together into a sort of Vehicular Centipede. It’s nearly 100 feet long, fits 256 passengers, and — if you believe the institute that developed it — is no harder to drive than a regular 40-footer. So basically, it’s a subway train minus the complicated underground […]
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20-foot radioactive ant will make you pretty concerned about nuclear power
Nuclear power didn’t make this radioactive ant — art did. But the 20-foot insect, which is made out of beads of uranium glass, is not just a terrifying work of art, but a commentary on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown. The ant is part of an installation called “What The Birds Knew,” by artists Ken […]
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Cinnabon pizzas exist, and these guys ate one
As long as we’re having hot dog pizzas and cheeseburger pizzas, why not put pizza on everything? Why not go mad? We could have pizza coffee and pizza ice cream and pizza s’mores and pizza Cinnabons! Ha ha ha ha ha oh wait that last one actually exists. Cinnabon is only rolling out these personal […]
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This beautiful image is actually 150 years of hurricane data
John Nelson, the guy who brought you the gorgeous maps of wildfire and tornado data, has really outdone himself this time. This is more than 150 years of hurricanes, presented in an unusual orientation (Antarctica is at the center of the map), and it is downright stunning.