Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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16-square-foot apartment is a vision of tiny housing taken too far
We love tiny housing — it’s less wasteful, and so adorable! But there’s a limit to how small a space you can live in and still not go insane. We butted up against it with the 78-square-foot apartment, but this video about a (fictional, but plausible) Hong Kong apartment called King’s Cube plunges past the […]
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Obama wants to give white children asthma, says blogger
You might think that air quality controls are about mitigating the health effects of breathing in pollution. If you’re a staunch Republican, you might think they’re about destroying capitalism. But blogger (and birther) Daren Jonescu knows what air quality controls are really about: Giving white children lung diseases. (And destroying capitalism.) Jonescu wrote a piece in […]
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Mesmerizing video of flattened food
Filmmakers Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree say they “where curious about de forms and shapes food makes when you flatten them.” (They’re Dutch.)
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Taco Bell sold 100 million Doritos tacos in 10 weeks
The Doritos Locos taco is now Taco Bell's most popular product launch ever.