Grist List
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Watch an octopus take apart a camera while punching a shark
To researchers, this baited camera is equipment for monitoring underwater ecosystems. To an octopus, it's just a complicated lunchbox.
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Bhutan wants to be the world’s first 100 percent organic country
To be fair, the country's already most of the way there.
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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you
Thanks to a secret government nuclear facility, Lake Karachay may be the most polluted spot on the planet.
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Thanks to climate change, Texas is up to its ears in dead crickets
Texas is having a very big problems with crickets and it's not just that the crickets are really gross, it's that when they die, they smell really bad.
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Now you can get text messages from a cow’s vagina
It's getting harder to tell when dairy cows are in heat. But never fear, farmers! Now their genitals can text you.
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For you hipster entomologists, here’s a caterpillar that looks just like bacon
Supposedly this weird living bacon is actually a moth caterpillar. Made of bacon.
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The Confluence Project is photographing every latitude/longitude intersection on Earth
Although volunteers have visited more than a third of the accessible confluence points, there are 10,166 out there waiting to be visited.
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McDonald’s video claims their beef is not really that bad
McDonald's makes a video to show people that their beef is as pure as the driven snow, and even includes a few lol questions from wary consumers.
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Tsunami of ‘chemical deodorant’ foam floods Chinese village
What would you think if you saw a giant wall of doom-bubbles advancing on you down the river? PANIC.
