Grist List
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Sure, that bike is nice, but wouldn’t you rather have a unicorn?
We've all been there. You're trying to sell a really nice bike to a dude who seems really interested, and then OF COURSE some jackass shows up with a unicorn and the whole deal goes sour.
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Turns out IKEA cake now comes with extra feces
IKEA: where you can get a cheap bed and some poop in your snacks.
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Bike Helmet of Justice will capture footage of the a*hole driver who hit you
It has embedded in it seven cameras that start recording when jarred and jostled -- i.e., when the cyclist wearing it gets into an accident.
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Mind-bending four-dimensional graffiti takes street art to the next level
Street artist INSA paints, photographs, re-paints, and re-photographs his works over a span of days, resulting in a piece of graffiti art that becomes really special when viewed as a time-lapse animation.
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We’re addicted to this map of average commute times in the U.S.
On average, in America, it takes a person 25.4 minutes to get to work. But averages elide so much wonderful, painful information about location and the burden of commuting.
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Global warming is causing flying squirrels to engage in miscegenation
The northern flying squirrel and the southern flying squirrel are beginning to mate. It might be because of climate change. Or maybe they're just really attracted to each other.
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These beautiful landscapes are actually piles of trash
Artist Yao Lu's works look like classical Chinese landscape paintings, but they're really photographs of landfill garbage covered in construction netting.
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This soccer ball generates energy while you play
Soccer is a cool, continental sport. Now it is also green, thanks to this energy-generating soccer ball.
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Fly to Mars in a spaceship made of poop
A rich dude wants to send people to Mars. They're going to give them a nice poop shield though, so they won't die.
