Grist List
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This hilarious, awesome Ziploc jacket is the most practical upcycled clothing we’ve ever seen
Use it to complete your outfit, use it to hold your lunch.
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Carrotmob helps you give businesses a reason to make positive changes
It works like an inverse boycott. Rather than influence businesses by withholding money, customers can influence businesses by giving them money.
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You can help save Venice’s old-school gondolas
There are two kinds of gondolas in Venice. Kickstarter is trying to save the cheaper ones.
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Compare a week of U.S. groceries to Mexico, Mongolia, and other countries
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio offer a fascinating window into the differences in the quantity and quality of food people eat across the world.
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The FDA wants to put restrictions on caffeine
The FDA is worried about the 10-year-old kid who thinks it's AWESOME to have caffeinated waffles.
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Climate change may make it harder for surfers to catch a good wave
Due to climate change, waves are going to shrink over 25 percent of the world, including in a lot of popular surfing areas. Bogus.
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Doofuses decide to eat nothing but junk food for a week, manage not to die
A doctor told them: "You should cancel this.”
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The Formosan clouded leopard has been declared extinct
This subspecies of clouded leopard, native to Taiwan, has probably been extinct for decades. Now it's official.
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Grow your own glow-in-the-dark rose
Researchers who fantasize about using trees as street lights have already made smaller plants that glow.
