Why shouldn’t Paul Rudd help you make it to Saturday? (Last week: pirates, plants, and pundits.)

Oktoberfest is getting vegan options:

Your support powers solutions-focused climate reporting — keeping it free for everyone. All donations DOUBLED for a limited time. Give now in under 45 seconds.
Secure · Tax deductible · Takes 45 Seconds

Stories like this don’t tell themselves.

Make others like it possible. Your support powers solutions-focused climate reporting — keeping it free for everyone. Give now in under 45 seconds.
Secure · Tax deductible · Takes 45 Seconds

Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one.

The Yeti was actually just a hybrid polar bear:

Banksy sold original prints on the streets of NYC for $60:

paul-rudd-double-take

Beanstalk

Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one.

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to EPA greenhouse-gas laws — and that’s a good thing:

Animals ran amok on the White House lawns during the shutdown:

Eating bacon makes your semen suck:

Illinois will stop brainwashing kids to like coal: