Grist List
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Jon Stewart knows global warming is a hoax, and he knows who’s to blame
“Global warming is a total hoax. And Ill tell you how I know. Because it’s cold, today, where I live. That’s jus’ science.”
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Watch as this squirrel demonstrates proper OH GOD THERE’S A LEOPARD procedure
As a rule, you never, ever want to be the last one to realize the leopard's snuck up and is looking for something to eat.
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Watch this baby elephant get rescued from a well
A group of elephants strayed unusually close to a village in India, and one of the baby elephants fell into an unused well.
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This super-detailed satellite photo of the frozen Great Lakes is pretty spectacular
It looks like some desolate planet that's inhospitable to human life, and ... yeah, that's about right, at the moment.
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Be glad you don’t live in Oymyakon, Russia, where it can get down to -96 degrees
Cold? Yeah, suck it up. If you lived in Oymyakun, your glasses would freeze to your face, but you'd still have to go outside to pee.
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Victoria’s Secret will soon offer nontoxic bras, for a change
Victoria's Secret is going to make its bras less toxic by 2020. Great for your boobs, great for the planet.
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Whales adopting disabled dolphin is the feel-good story of the millenium
Once upon a time, there was a dolphin who was born different than the other dolphins.
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Transparent ninja bike will probably get you killed
Most received wisdom about bikes focuses on keeping yourself visible. This bike is clear. As in, hard to see.
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The world’s largest online nature sounds archive features 8,000 hours of animal noises
Thanks to Cornell's Macaulay Library, you can now listen to 150,000 recordings of over 9,000 species of animals. But you still have to do your work too.
