Grist List
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Facebook’s new data center will run on 100 percent wind energy
What does that actually mean?
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Can we save the planet by shrinking all the humans?
If we learned anything from the “DRINK ME” scene in Alice in Wonderland, shrinking is totally possible.
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This may be the last backpack you ever need
It may look like a boring beige backpack to you, but this is actually a big "FU" to fast fashion.
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Watch this elderly British guy blow-dry his pet fox
What does the fox say? For this rescued fox, the answer seems to be "purrrrr."
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Heavily polluted Beijing now has 8-year-old lung cancer patient
But don't worry -- health officials say she probably just smokes too much.
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Rescued turtle can walk again thanks to a LEGO wheel prosthesis
Schildi the turtle lost a leg, but doctors rebuilt him, better, stronger, and ... probably much less fast but really, he's a turtle, how fast was he going to be.
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No one had seen this funky-looking endangered ox in the wild for 15 years
The saola, a "long-horned ox" that looks, basically, like a deer that got vanilla ice cream all over its face, is really, really good at not being seen by humans.
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Instant bike lanes snap together like toy railroad tracks
City designers can buy a set, lay down a bike lane, and test it out.
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Pee-powered pollution robots are the future
As long as the EcoBot isn’t equipped with a sense of smell, it should be just fine.
