Grist List
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This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe
It tells your phone how crappy the air is. And then your phone tells you the bad news.
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If you cared about the environment, you’d eat mealworms instead of meat
Mealworms are good for you. They're good for the planet. Too bad they are gross.
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Attention French people and the 1 percent: Climate change is stealing your truffles
Of course, really REALLY rich people will still be OK, because what else is new.
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3-year-old incubated seven deadly snakes in his closet
When 3-year-old Kyle Cummings found nine eggs in his yard, he brought them inside, put them in a warm, dark place -- his closet -- and waited to see what would come out.
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We’ve covered the moon with 400,000 pounds of trash, including bags of pee
The moon is covered with man-made debris. Which makes it like Earth, but with less gravity and no good restaurants.
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California is turning this industrial town into a car-free oasis
The plan is to make Newark, Calif. into a cute little village, with a train, just like a Richard Scarry book. Sounds adorbs.
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Pittsburgh is building a skyscraper that can breathe
Wouldn't you love to be able to take an outdoor walk -- inside a Pittsburgh skyscraper?
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10-year-old invents light-up crosswalks, IBM makes them real
Better pedestrian infrastructure for all! And especially adorable children.
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NASA once planned to feed astronauts emergency fruitcake
You have to love any story that begins, "During the 1970s and 1980s the US military conducted a series of tests on fruitcake."
