Grist List
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Fancy espresso machines are leaching lead into your coffee
Super-strong cleaning agents react with coffee machine parts and release lead into espresso. Yum!
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Climate change will ruin Christmas by threatening Christmas trees
This year was so bad for Christmas tree growers, what with heat waves and flash floods and whatnot, that a bunch of them have decided that they're not going to plant new crops.
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2,000 mice parachute into Guam to kill snake invaders
The Air Force is sending in the mice.
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This nifty accessory turns your bike into a minibar
Prepare to sweep your bike date off his or her feet!
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An eagle stole a video camera and made this cinematic masterpiece
Best Picture 2014 or I’m not Roger Ebert.
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This brightly colored thread is made out of snail poop
It's a very particular and surprisingly appealing form of recycling.
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These slabs of recycled denim and resin are weirdly beautiful
And they can be used for architectural projects, as well as for nifty consumer designs.
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Let’s source all of Earth’s energy from moon-based solar panels
This plan would require moon mining and robots.
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Climate change means more sea snot
Sea snot: a delicious mixture of gooey sea animal corpses and their poo!
