Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Here’s what lightning looks like in 3-D
From our vantage point on the ground, lightning usually looks like a forked line from the sky to the ground. But it's way more complicated and cool, as this model of lightning from the D.C. derecho shows.
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Spectacular image of the Southern Lights from space
If you need an excuse to love the planet, just hang around NASA’s site for a while — the images they post make it kind of hard not to feel awed about the Earth.
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Here is a very, very gross picture of mayflies
My first thought when looking at this photo (posted by Reddit user ILikeWhereThisIsGoin, who probably doesn’t) was “oh, a lawnmower must have exploded! Look at all those grass clippings. All those perfectly innocuous, not-alive grass clippings.” But no, that’s just thousands and thousands of mayflies. Still perfectly innocuous, in the sense that they won’t hurt […]
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Farmer spends $100,000 on waterbeds for cows
[protected-iframe id=”fd779d2d5dfa2bc178edb19793ecb62a-5104299-30166106″ info=”http://swfs.bimvid.com/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=KGW” width=”470″ height=”264″] Even on a small, family-owned dairy farm, life as a milk cow looks not so great. I mean, you do spend a lot of time standing around in a stall with devices attached to your nipples. That’s cool if it’s your thing, and if there are enough of you who […]
