Grist List
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Bike-powered e-waste recycler could keep your electronics from murdering the planet
It's basically a grinder, attached to a bike.
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Robots, plants team up to make humans fall flat on their faces
By making plants mobile, you make them the natural enemies of a) humans and b) cats
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Important study: People eat fattening foods when they know they’re gonna die anyway
I bet you’ve been going around thinking that death row prisoners choosing their last meals usually make do with a salad and a stick of sugarless gum. Well, science is here to rescue you, poor benighted soul, with a definitive study finding: People prefer final meals with a lot of calories. The researchers analyzed the […]
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Baby elephant is as cute as its name is unpronounceable
This new baby elephant is cute as hell, and its name contains a letter that doesn't exist in English or probably any of the other languages you know.
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This guy runs the Fight Club of libraries outside his front door
For more than a decade, Hernando Guanlao, of Manila, has run the Fight Club of reading out of his home library. The BBC reports: The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want — even permanently. As Guanlao says: “The only rule is that there […]
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Climate change T-shirt is (almost) the star of London’s fashion week
Fashion Icon Vivienne Westwood vamps it up DIY style at London's fashion week. Does she care? Or is she just being mad trendy?
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If you are good at running, it can be faster than taking the subway
Still, we are going to vote for keeping the subway.
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Russia has secret diamond reserves worth one quadrillion dollars
Russia discovers diamonds, keeps them a secret, then finally tells everyone what great diamonds these are.
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This is the most beautiful snow art we’ve ever seen
Simon Beck walks around for days to create his fractal snow patterns, and they are astonishing.
