Articles by Jess Zimmerman

Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.

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  • Oh man alive you will not believe what’s in the McRib

    McDonald's McRib sandwich has kind of a cult following, like Phish if they were only around for like a month every year instead of seemingly forever. And like Phish, it is jam-packed with synthetic ingredients. (I kid, I kid. I'm sure all of Phish's enhancement is purely herbal.) For instance, one of the bun ingredients […]

    Jess Zimmerman Food

  • Leaded gas goes the way of the dodo

    The sign on the gas pump saying "unleaded" will soon be a quaint anachronism, like the sign on the plane saying "No Smoking." A successful push by the Natural Resources Defense Council to phase out leaded gas worldwide is rushing leaded gas towards the same fate as smallpox — total elimination by a public health […]

    Jess Zimmerman Energy

  • Facebook is building a renewable-powered mini-town in the Arctic

    Facebook is building a server farm in northern Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic circle. The average temperatures there are so cold that they won't need to use anything but the outside air to cool 600,000 square feet of servers. But even so, the server farm will use as much power as 16,000 homes. […]

    Jess Zimmerman Technology

  • Would you wear fish-skin shoes? Manolo Blahnik thinks you would

    Designer Manolo Blahnik, who makes wildly expensive footwear, is launching a line of shoes made with sustainable or recycled material, like "raffia, cork and tilapia skins." Ooh, this is a good idea! What about tin foil? What about banana skins? What about Kleenex boxes? They are already practically shoes! In all seriousness, it's kind of […]

    Jess Zimmerman Culture