Grist List
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This cooking pot charges your gadgets while heating your soup
The PowerPot charges your phone while you cook. Because let's face it. Without your phone, you are nothing.
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Here’s the depressing reality of train travel in America
It's no secret that the Northeast Corridor line is the system's most popular, but you can get a sense of how much more used it is than any other bit of the system.
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Beer brewers are joining forces to fight fracking
New York craft breweries are worried that fracking could pollute their water and threaten beer production -- so they're speaking out.
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We are losing our minds over this tiny pig and his tiny wheelchair
Chris P. Bacon is a four-pound piglet on wheels and we love him and are never going to stop watching these videos.
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These ‘God Made a Farmer’ parody ads are much, much better than the real thing
As you may have heard, God created farmers, heart-moving rural imagery, and Dodge Rams. But did you know that God also created Monsanto, farm subsidies, and factory farms?
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The oldest known wild bird, a 62-year-old albatross, just hatched a miracle baby
A really old albatross had a baby. She will soon be walking around Park Slope with a stroller, looking exhausted.
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Hurricane Sandy didn’t kill NYC’s rats — it just made them move into luxury apartments
Extermination companies have gotten so many complaints about rat infestations they can hardly keep up.
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This gross story about a human tooth in a sausage might prompt you to go vegetarian
A British couple found a tooth in their sausage. The supermarket where they bought the sausage says it's a bone. Someone is lying here.
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Use this fantasy high-speed rail map to plan your epic train adventure
New York to Chicago? That looks to be about, oh, five or so hours to us.
