Grist List
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Climate scientist: Screw this, I’m going to go make pickles
Is there any job more depressing than climate scientist? It’s no wonder Addie Rose Holland decided to pickle things for a living instead.
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Zipcar is half-price today, to help you get to the polls
You need to vote, and if you have to drive to the polling place, so be it. Zipcar will help.
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This guy is putting the Earth up for auction, and it’s only $123 million
You're face to face with the man who sold the world on Yahoo Auctions.
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Hedgehog rescued from potato chip bag by professional hedgehog-rescuers
A hedgehog crawled into a potato chip bag outside a supermarket in Weston-super-Mare. After a three-hour ordeal, it was rescued, and is fine, and still cute.
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Here’s why you can’t just nuke a storm
Apparently, people ask the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about this every year. Here's the answer.
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British charity is recycling ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ as toilet paper
Fifty Shades of Grey, for the uninitiated, is a madly popular, rather trashy book in which a young woman has an affair with an older businessman.
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Rare whale seen for the first time only to die hours later
Before 2010, no one had ever seen the spade-toothed beaked whale in the flesh, let alone alive.
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This post-Sandy image will seriously mess with your head
This dude either has amazing core strength or lives in a freaky sideways universe.
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Artist wants to replace L.A.’s billboards with elevated bamboo forests
It's a pretty idea; just check out the mock-up.
