Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Watch the opening of a 100-year-old mystery package
This mysterious package, sealed up on Aug. 26, 1912, has been kept in a museum in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, for the last 100 years. Curators there have no idea what was inside it, and know only a little about the man — a local political figure — who packaged it up. But they’re finding out RIGHT […]
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Squid can make music videos WITH THEIR SKIN
Oh, you thought you were insane in the membrane, Cypress Hill? That’s because you didn’t see the insane membrane of this longfin squid, which is producing its own hip-hop music video in response to electrical stimuli from an iPod.
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Here’s your chance to drink beer with Obama! Sort of.
The White House promises to release its beer recipe if an online petition gets 25,000 signatures.
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Here’s what record low sea-ice levels look like
I hope Santa has a swimsuit, because this webcam picture from the North Pole shows pools of meltwater opening up as sea ice reaches a record low. Ice coverage is predicted to drop to unprecedented levels as early as this weekend (if it hasn’t already — it takes a while to compare and collate all the […]