Grist List
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This fancypants sofa bench is actually a rainwater collector
It slurps up rain and traps the water inside.
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This chicken coop used to be a 1970s police car
It's a clever bit of upcycling, and a clever bit of punning as well.
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Meat-based diets linked with type 2 diabetes; vegans everywhere get smug
Guess we won't be having that bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich today after all.
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This video of a semitruck’s blind spot will blow your MIND
Sorry for the Upworthy headline, but seriously.
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Miami couple forced to rip out 17-year-old veggie garden in their front yard
You can have pink plastic flamingos in your front yard, but not a vegetable garden. WTF?
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Enjoy your nightmares about this squid and its creepy extra-long tentacles
That's not an alien that's sweeping through the void to end your life and consciousness with a single, silent whip of its stringy tentacles. It's a squid.
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Brazil declared a state of emergency over this little tiny caterpillar
It looks like your standard caterpillar. Little, squirmy, kind of creepy, kind of cute. Brazil is freaking out because this thing can eat.
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People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents
Of course, there are practical drawbacks.
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Howard Stern’s SeaWorld comments might actually make you like him
More eco-activism and less misogyny, please!