Grist List
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You can now donate to the homeless through a parking meter
People who don't like giving to panhandlers will now be able to give change to the homeless through the more official channel of an old parking meter.
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This 40-foot Christmas tree is made of 40,000 recycled plastic bottles
Kaunas, Lithuania killed two turtledoves with one stone: no trees had to die, and a lot of trash found a new life.
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Hot tip: It’s hard to mount a camera onto a shark
Brb, going to catch a shark, control it, and get in the water with it. No bigs.
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Now someone is trying to sell human-poop coffee
Joke? Not a joke? What avid, Portland-dwelling Grist List reader wants to respond to this ad and find out?
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Signs of the apocalypse: Kangaroo-on-dog belly rubs, cats nursing hedgehogs
We know, we know, it's totally irrational to think that the world is going to end on Dec. 21. But then you see something like a kangaroo giving a dog a belly rub ...
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Giving cars their own version of the internet could reduce crashes by 80 percent
Networking vehicles might cut down on accidents as much as 80 percent.
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Here’s a mama duck and her babies crossing a highway, enjoy your heart attack
Everyone's fine! Except you, because you died of stress watching it.
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How did Newark Mayor Cory Booker do on his food stamp challenge?
Newark Mayor Cory Booker lived on food stamps for a week, and figured out being poor and not drinking coffee sucks.
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The Arctic’s beautiful frost flowers are home to millions of microbes
University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and professor Jody Demind traveled to the central Arctic ocean to study these beautiful structures, called frost flowers.
