Grist List
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Government officials shut down 4-year-old’s vegetable garden
There's not really any apparent reason for the garden to be removed, either.
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Girl steals bike back from bike thief
She contacted the thief posing as an interested buyer, took the bike for a test ride -- and just kept riding.
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Your dishwasher can clean dishes and make dinner at the same time
Anything you would slowly poach -- we’re thinking fish and fruit, mostly -- will work here.
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Trombone-shaped gutters turn rainfall into music
Portlandia ain't got nothin' on this.
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Next year, you’ll be able to play the Brooklyn Bridge like a harp
Thanks to British artist Di Mainstone, harps ain't just for angels and Joanna Newsom anymore.
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These aerial shots of factory farming look like bloody zombie wounds
In case you needed another reason to stop eating factory-farmed meat (and/or to be bummed about the state of America).
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Newly discovered worm is basically a walking waterbed that spits glue
How amazing is it that creatures like this have been out there all this time and nobody knew about it? Wait, scientists knew about it? Shut up.
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If it’s too smoggy for your tourist photos, Hong Kong has a fake blue-sky backdrop
Because you didn't pay good money to go to Hong Kong and have your vacation Instagrams ruined by light-impervious smog.
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These giant singing flowers are also creating solar power
This installation of solar panels could have come right out of a Dr. Seuss book.
