Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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The Onion suggests we figure out pretty fast who we need to kill
The Onion reports that scientists have figured out the definitive solution to overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental carnage: We just need to kill off a third of the human race. Who wants to go first?
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Newt Gingrich wants to colonize the moon
Newt Gingrich is gunning to become our first nerd president, and obviously a nerd president’s first order of business is securing voting rights for the moon. (Maybe right after knighting George Lucas.) Gingrich wants to establish a “permanent base on the moon” by the end of his first term, and once it has 13,000 people […]
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Oklahoma makes bold move to not eat human fetuses
Apparently the new hotness among Republicans is legislating against things that don't exist.
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Republicans cockblock NOAA appointment because of an oil-drilling snit
You’d think that the main criterion for being named the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s chief scientist would be that you are a scientist. (Lesser criteria: being plausibly chiefly; studying some field related to oceanic and/or atmospheric science.) Turns out, though, that being a scientist can be a real liability for the chief scientist job, […]
