Grist List
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Matt Damon says he’s going to stop using the toilet
He was looking for a way to, and we quote, "persuade people to give a shit about toilets."
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Colorado governor participated in ‘ritual-like’ drinking of fracking fluid
We’d never drink from a cup that Halliburton handed us. But Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is a braver man, apparently.
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Sea slug penises fall off after sex and then grow back
It's sort of like human fingernails -- you can cut a bit off and throw it away, but it'll grow back, and then you can use it to have sex with a slug.
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Adorable sea turtle gets prosthetic flippers after a shark attack
A sea turtle who lost her flippers in a shark attack got a nice pair of prosthetics. They are attached to a vest. Yes. They are cute.
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San Francisco is turning the Bay Bridge into a giant LED light show
The annual electricity bill for the project will be an estimated $11,000. That's a lot of electricity -- but just imagine how much higher that bill would be if those 25,000 bulbs were incandescents.
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New Zealand woman dies from drinking more than two gallons of Coke a day
The 30-year-old died of cardiac arrhythmia.
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How are you celebrating Darwin’s birthday? Here are our best ideas
It's Darwin Day! That's the day we celebrate Darwin's birthday, the survival of the fittest, and the fact that the planet's more than 6,000 years old.
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‘Farmhouse porn’ will make you want to quit your job and raise cattle
There's not a Tumblr, yet. But there is a Pinterest board, brought to you by undercaffeinated editors at Modern Farmer.
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Man, people really knew how to party with penguins in 1903
When people hung out with penguins in 1903, they did it with class. They did it with dignity. They did it with bagpipes.
