Grist List
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The sad story of climate change, told through neighborhood ice rinks
Rinkwatch measures climate change by monitoring the health of ice rinks in North America. Hint: They're not doing well.
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Dolphins have been acting really nice lately and we’re scared
Perhaps we've been too hasty in trashing dolphins. Or perhaps something weird is going on.
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We kinda never want to get on the subway again after reading this horror story
D.C.'s WMATA did when it left hundreds of passengers stranded underground for hours after a track fire stopped service.
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Meet the activists who think they can save the planet with porn
PETA's got nothing on Berlin NGO Fuck For Forest, which sells porn to buy threatened rainforest land.
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Newly discovered bacterium poops gold
Everybody run out and get some Delftia acidovorans, so you can add to the emergency stash of precious metal that you keep under your basement stairs!
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This Colorado library lets patrons check out packets of seeds
Borrowers can't exactly grow seeds and return the exact same ones, but this library in Colorado has figured out a way around that fact of life.
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Oscar-nominated film shows you how to make guacamole out of household items
Don't eat this, but do watch it.
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Gigantic, beautiful sand drawings take hours to make and minutes to start washing away
Tony Plant's sand drawings are meant to be "left to nature and passersby."
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Burger King maybe served customers burgers with horse meat in them
When testers started looking for telltale horse DNA, they found it.
