Grist List
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Finally, you can display your love of public transit and show off your gams at the same time
The New York subway and your legs: a combination you probably never thought of, but now that it's been done it seems so obvious.
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Artist makes potholes useful by filling them with flowers and spaghetti
To you a pothole may look like evidence of crumbling infrastructure, but to Davide Luciano it looks like a nice place to garden, fish, or wash your dog.
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Watch seriously endangered baby birds take their first steps
Spoon-billed sandpipers are super-adorable, and there are only 100 breeding pairs left in the wild.
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This robot can turn your plastic garbage into raw material for 3D printers
A cute new machine recycles plastic into filament for 3D printers. You should get one. When they actually are available, which will happen, uh, soon.
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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Did Google kill a donkey in Botswana?
It looks … dead. In fact, it looks … like it got RUN OVER BY THE STREET VIEW CAR.
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Utah smoothie shop owner charges extra if you don’t love oil
The "I Love Drilling Juice and Smoothie Bar" charges liberals a dollar extra, though it seems doubtful many will show up.
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Somehow horse meat made it into a bunch of burgers in Ireland and the U.K.
French people might enjoy horse meat every now and again, but the British, as a rule, do not. Nor do the Irish.
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This leopard would win at hide and seek every time
Some animals just think they're good at a camouflage. This leopard actually is.
