Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Study: Rich old Republicans are pessimistic about your future
A new Gallup poll finds that only 44 percent of those surveyed thought that today's youth would have a better life than their parents. That's worse than during the recession. In fact, it's the lowest percentage on record, for a question they've been asking since 1983. (The highest, weirdly, was in December 2001 — 71 […]
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Cute guy hand-rears baby hummingbird, what’s not to love?
How's this for a hands-on approach to saving the natural world: When this baby hummingbird was attacked, this guy rescued it and nursed it to a healthy adulthood in a stirring montage set to a Jack Johnson tune. The dude says: when she thought she was ready to leave (and she was) she flew off […]
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GOP rep couldn’t have voted for oil subsidies, because they don’t exist, la la la
Bush killed Osama, the president was born in Kenya, and there's no such thing as oil subsidies. Not buying it? You just need practice. If you can believe six impossible things before breakfast every day, before you know it you'll be as adept as Utah Rep. Rob Bishop, who last week told a constituent that […]
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New Chernobyl sarcophagus will dismantle itself from the inside
The "sarcophagus" that encases the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was only ever supposed to be temporary, but it's been left in place for 25 years. It's no surprise that the thing could crumble if you looked at it funny (and a LOT of people look at it funny). So a new containment structure […]
