Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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The Gates Foundation just bought 50 gallons of fake poo
Bill Gates is into scat. His foundation is hard at work on a new space-age toilet, and to test the prototypes, it just bought 50 gallons of soybean-based fake feces from a soybean-based fake feces company. That’s some of it up above, sitting a lot closer to a dude’s hand than I’d want it to […]
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This miniature city is made of 100,000 staples
This is significantly more creative than we've ever gotten with office supplies.
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Sperm whales sleep standing up
Sperm whales spend most of their time sailing lazily through the deep, only occasionally stopping to have a terrifying penis. (The ones in the video are right whales, but I assume the sperm whale is much the same.) Basically, their normal activity looks not unlike you and me sleeping. But it turns out their sleeping […]
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Q&A with ‘Mohawk Guy’ Bobak Ferdowsi, the new face of science
I love the fact that NASA’s dishy mohawked flight director Bobak Ferdowsi is now basically a household name, putting a human (and handsome) face on the Curiosity mission and space exploration in general. If we’re going to survive as a civilization or a species, we need to get excited about science, and it helps when […]