Grist List
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Australia’s latest invasive species concern is a giant snail that will eat your house
Last time giant African snails showed up in Australia, they ate crops and house siding and took eight months to eradicate. One just showed up in a shipping container in Brisbane. Dun-duh-DUNNNNNNH.
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The prize in this ‘lobster claw’ machine is an actual live lobster
Usually when you play with your food before you eat it, it is already dead and cooked.
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A new board game where kids rescue polar bears from real, melting ice
Meltdown comes with a special ice cube tray, so you can rescue polar bear game pieces from a tabletop-sized melting Arctic.
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Make your clothes last longer by coating them in flame-retardant fish sperm
Fish sperm makes a good flame retardant. It's also really great for mixing with fish eggs to make more fish to make more fish sperm.
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Eensy-beensy baby octopus is a teeny wee octopus-head, yes it is
This is by far the most adorable thing that also kind of looks like the results of picking your nose that we've ever seen.
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Tree that survived a tsunami has been made into a monument
If a tree could have balls of steel, this one would -- but instead it now has a spine of carbon and plastic leaves and branches.
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One day these robotic bees might have to replace real ones
Look, they can fly!
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Tired of disposable clothing? This sweatshirt has a 10-year warranty
If it rips or tears or otherwise starts to break down -- they'll fix it for you. Because they think that "not everything should be disposable."
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Gun-toting killer dolphins are now running loose in the Black Sea
Remember how the Ukrainian Navy was supposedly strapping knives and guns to dolphins and turning them into highly skilled dolphin assassins? Well, some of those guys seem to have gotten loose.
