Grist List
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World’s best cop saves nearly 100 baby sea turtles
We don't want to hear anything negative about the police for at least five minutes.
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Prepare yourself for the sun’s magnetic field to flip polarity
It won't really affect us at all -- unless we can use apocalypse panic to convince science deniers to flee to remote areas.
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Now you can make alcoholic beverages out of used coffee grounds
Get those coffee grounds the hell out of the compost pile, because science has worked out how to transform them into booze.
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The tiniest of tiny houses began its life as a dumpster
A dumpster makes perfect sense as housing in NYC.
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The week in GIFs: Fast food, fancy water, and candy grapes
This week was brought to you by the word "food."
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Wifi-enabled trash can knows where you live
They reach out to pedestrians with their wifi tentacles and "track the proximity and speed of people walking past."
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Awesome farmer builds his pigs a mudslide, just for kicks
One can only imagine the gush-gush-SLURRRP noises and happy oinks that followed.
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This beautiful moth is painted with images of other insects (and bird poop)
"Tell me again about your eyespots, those must have taken you FOREVER to evolve. Oh, this? Just a mural of two flies eating bird droppings."
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High school students made the best raps about science we’ve ever seen
Science-class raps are a bit of a trend.