Grist List
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Northern Virginia seems to have a rabid beaver problem
If you don't want to get bitten by a rabid beaver, best to avoid Northern Virginia, where there have been a spate of attacks.
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Four decades of BS coal ads
QuitCoal.org has amassed quite a collection of misleading coal ads, misrepresenting coal’s safety, its abundance, its environmental impact, and how likely it is to save us from totalitarianism. Here we present samples of ads by coal companies and coal industry front groups from the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s — showing that the more things […]
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Exposed: Manufacturing conglomerate’s plan for moving humans off of Earth
Sean Ragan of MAKE magazine just posted this amazing graphic, which he tracked down after being mildly obsessed with it for more than a decade. It’s an “Integrated Space Plan” drawn up by Rockwell International, a conglomerate of manufacturing companies in the aerospace, electronics, and truck component industries. The plan was created in the ’80s, […]
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You should probably spend all day watching this brand-new baby panda
Suspend all activities you had planned: THERE IS A NEW PANDA CUB AT THE NATIONAL ZOO.
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I promise you will enjoy watching this man get attacked by a bear
In fact, it may make YOU want to get attacked by a bear.
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Guam is entirely infested with spiders, and it’s all the fault of invasive snakes
The island of Guam has up to 40 times the normal number of spiders — on average, about one spiderweb every two feet during the rainy season. And if that’s not enough, it’s also infested with brown tree snakes. That’s not a coincidence. According to a study published in PLoS, Guam’s spider explosion comes from […]
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Scientists are using new technology to identify zombie bees
Some of the scientists investigating the mysterious honeybee die-offs suspect zombie bees, bees that are being mind-controlled by parasitic scuttle fly maggots. Unlike human zombies, bee zombies (or, inevitably, “zombees”) do not have telltale tattered clothes or dark eye makeup. So in order to tell whether they’re dealing with bees or zombees, researchers are affixing […]
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Apple’s massive solar farm looks kind of awesome from the air
Apple is building a giant solar farm to power a data center in North Carolina, and GigaOM has aerial shots that show just how huge it is. The pictures were taken by North Carolina television station WCNC-TV. At 100 acres, this is going to be the world’s largest privately owned solar panel farm — you […]
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America’s 20th largest bus system is a semi-legal network of vans in NYC
In New York City's outer boroughs, there's an official bus system and a shadow bus system.
