Grist List
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The Weather Channel has your forecast for 2050
The Weather Channel joins the IPCC in predicting a chaotic future without climate action. Wear a raincoat.
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Beer: a magical mixture of hops, barley, and tiny pieces of plastic
Researchers took a microscope to a bunch of German beer. What they found will ruin your whole day.
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This just in: Millennials love organic eggplant, hate Gucci
The nation’s most closely scrutinized generation is basically dumping $20 bills on the front steps of Whole Foods with a wheelbarrow.
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Get paid to make your commute awesome
Got an idea for how to make the daily trek less awful? This contest could make your dream come true.
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Google trend watch: The indoors are the new outdoors
Google brings backpacking indoors with a very sexy and subtle new virtual mapping device!
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These ice cream makers aren’t down with vanilla’s brand new invention
Companies like Häagen-Dazs and Straus Family Creamery won't be using vanilla made via synthetic biology.
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PETA’s new virtual reality game could make you too chicken to eat chicken
I, Chicken, a new virtual reality game from PETA, lets you experience life as a chicken just before slaughter.
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Watch the world go up in fracking flares
Natural gas flares join city lights and the Great Wall of China as stuff you can see from space.
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This California bill will make electric cars way less pretentious
If passed, the Charge Ahead California Initiative would subsidize electric cars for low-income drivers throughout the state.