Grist List
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New Weather Channel show talks to the people who are trying to change the climate (with cartoons and jokes!)
The show visits researchers who are coming up with creative, and in some cases cray-cray, solutions to rescue us hapless citizens from the havoc we're wreaking on our world.
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Noble hunter rescues lost seal pup mysteriously stranded in a Swedish forest
The pup was four miles away from any open body of water.
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The most metal way to recycle your water bottles: Make them into DIY rockets
This may not be a sensible alternative to recycling, but it is an excellent alternative to NOT shooting flaming bottles at stuff.
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You can help track the inexorable progress of this year’s cicada infestation
Every 17 years, the cicadas come. This time, we're prepared.
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Science has spoken: Cookies really do taste better when they’re dunked
If you'd like to defend your dunking, look no further. Science has your back.
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The Gates Foundation will pay $100,000 for a better condom
The foundation is offering a grant for developing "the next generation of condom." By which it means, one that makes sex feel better, or at least not any worse.
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This dude jumping his skateboard over subway tracks is both crazy and CRAZY AWESOME
And, one might argue, way less concerned than he should be about the poor subway driver who'd be traumatized by killing him.
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For some reason, Emma Watson thinks getting naked will help the environment
We don't entirely get the green angle here.
