Grist List
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This poignant film will make you fall in love with cicadas
Turns out ooey gooey cicada babies are pretty cute, huh?
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Climate change thaws out 400-year-old plants
Scientists have found plants that have been chilling out under glaciers for about four centuries -- plants that, now that they're out from under the ice, have decided to start growing again.
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Cat learns to talk, chooses to only say “Al Gore”
This cat does an impression of what right-wingers think environmentalists sound like.
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This pedal-powered contraption can run a computer, split logs, or churn butter
Of course, you have to do the work of pedaling.
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Awesome old cookbook shows that the 1904 raw food movement was really into meat and cream
Eugene and Mollie Griswold Christian make a lot of the same arguments for healthy living and raw food that you hear today. Only they make them in turn-of-the-century style.
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Could hairy buildings be the future of green architecture?
Well, probably not any time soon. But these theoretical Cousin Itt skyscrapers, covered in energy-collecting hairs, still look sweet as hell.
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Idiots try to eat dinner on iceberg, get blown out to sea
Four American tourists were rescued after trying to have a picnic on an iceberg.
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We love this bike-riding hipster cat
MJ cruises around town on her bike-courier owner's shoulder.
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McDonald’s Mega Potato is three-quarters of a pound of fries, the highest-calorie item on the menu
As Zimmerman's law of fast food states, gross food can only get grosser and weirder.
