Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Jimmy Fallon perform ‘Don’t Frack My Mother’
Here’s Sean Lennon, deliberately looking just like his father and singing just like Bob Dylan for some reason, performing a slightly naughty anti-fracking song with his mom on Jimmy Fallon’s show.
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7-11’s mashed potato Slurpee machine in action
I’ve often said that the only real problem with mashed potatoes is that you can’t get them extruded out of a machine in a 7-11, in the form of a spookily liquid glop with gravy. I mean, what even is the point? Luckily, 7-11s in Singapore are finally making this right, with Slurpee-style machines that […]
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Amazing tiny apartment has a bathtub under the dining table
This Barcelona flat might be our favorite tiny apartment yet.
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The Department of Defense wants to put out fires by yelling at them
Much to pundits’ disappointment, you can’t solve most environmental ills just by yelling at them. But, as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has discovered, it does work for one thing: fires. DARPA’s “Instant Fire Suppression” program uses sound to put out flames — and it doesn’t even need to be that loud.