Grist List
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How scientists are bringing this weird, extinct, baby-barfing frog back from the dead
The frog DNA sat around for 40 years before scientists used cloning technology to bring the species back to life.
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Amazing street artist turns abandoned buildings into creepy, funny faces
Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz paints faces on buildings in out-of-the-way places.
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Watch a penguin play games on an iPad
Considering that touch screens are not exactly optimized for seabird use, they're actually pretty good at it.
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Best Kickstarter ever: This fourth-grade class is building its very own solar array, and you can help
Aaron's Class started their Kickstarter with the goal of raising $800. So far, they've raised $3,500.
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New York is getting rid of rats by sterilizing them
There are too many rats. So they're going to sterilize them. Seems like a plan.
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You eat less if you know exactly how many miles you’ll have to walk to burn it off
A recent study shows little changes to menus can make a big difference to health outcomes.
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Awesome 17-year-old geek wins $100,000 for her bedroom biofuel lab
Sara Volz's experiments with algae could create cheaper, more efficient biofuel.
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‘Yogurt for men’ comes with its own abs
Why should women be the only ones who get to sit around listing off stereotypes about their gender while eating oversweetened fat-free yogurt glop?
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This guy built an authentic passenger rail car in his basement
To make this subterranean transit-geek wonderland, self-described "train-obsessed nutcase" Jason Shron went in with a friend on a decades-old train car that was slated to be scrapped.
