Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Monster hailstone will eat your family
Man alive, check out the hailstone that fell in sunny Hawaii earlier this month. It’s four inches long and it has TEETH. I’m not actually convinced it’s not an embryonic yeti.
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We-Flashy sells reflective biking gear that looks like normal cool clothes
Oh yes, you're cool. Your bike looks like a Victorian gentleman. Your helmet looks like a tweed fedora. And your reflective vest looks like ... a shitty reflective vest. You have two options: Embrace ugliness as a hipness signifier, or find reflective clothing that actually looks like something you'd wear on purpose.
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Power source of the future: Snails
Sometimes it seems like researchers design experiments specifically to win an Ig Nobel prize. How else do you explain a paper titled "Implanted Biofuel Cell Operating in a Living Snail"?
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This 90-year-old on a tricycle is a total badass
You go, grandpa. I think we can overlook a little sidewalk-riding for a guy who was born before television.
