Grist List
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Farming is getting less white and less male, and these photos prove it
FarmHer, a photography project by Marji Guyler-Alaniz, highlights female farmers of a variety of ages and racial backgrounds.
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Someone has made cheese out of Michael Pollan’s belly button bacteria
When Pollan said we should make our own food, this is NOT what we thought he meant.
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See-through fish reminds us that nature is way, way weirder than we can cope with
Those dark circles on the front of its face? Those aren't eyes ...
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Portland and Seattle are getting special machines to sweep out bike lanes
It's no fun at all to ride a bike through a slippery pile of wet leaves. Actually, it's kind of terrifying.
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Wisconsin is solving icy roads like it solves everything else: With cheese
Wisconsin has an overabundance of a particular type of liquid waste -- cheese brine.
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Bill Gates wants to make sexy condoms out of cow tendons
This is how your sausage wrapper gets made: with help from a California butcher.
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Your Splenda habit is bad for the earth
We pee out 90 percent of sucralose, and then it just hangs out in wastewater. NOT GOOD.
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These works of art are made out of dead bees
Artist Sarah Hatton collects dead bees, but we promise it's not some sick weird thing.
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Foldable helmet gets rid of your last excuse for not protecting your poor, delicate skull
You can bring it with you in the morning, thinking that you might want it later, and not be particularly inconvenienced if you end up not using it.
