Grist List
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Insanely catchy song urges you to poop in a bucket
Pooping in a bucket might not save the world, but this is definitely going to be stuck in your head for a while.
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French judge: Monsanto poisoned farmer
In 2004, Paul François, a French farmer, breathed in the vapor of Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller while cleaning out the tank of a crop sprayer. He lost consciousness and later suffered from memory loss and headaches. Monday, a French court found that Monsanto could be held liable for poisoning François.
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Did fracking turn this squirrel purple?
One of the explanations being floated for the purple squirrel recently captured in Pennsylvania: An organobromide overdose caused by fracking. Yeah, it sounds a little far-fetched, but doesn’t it sound more interesting than “it fell in a port-a-potty”?
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Bill McKibben discusses his 700,000 anti-Keystone emails on Colbert
The 350.org founder appeared on the Colbert Report to discuss the anti-Keystone campaign.
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This app gets rid of your junk mail
Free app iOS/Android/WP7 app PaperKarma purports to unsubscribe you from junk mail and catalog lists with just a snapshot. You take pictures of your junk mail haul, and PaperKarma identifies the senders and notifies them to leave you the hell alone.
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How ancient humans killed off Africa’s rainforests
It turns out humans radically accelerated the loss of Africa’s forests 3,000 years ago.
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Why the 21st century will see migration back to the Rust Belt
Now that climate change means the Sun Belt is becoming the Drought Belt, you might want to head north.
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Happy Valentine’s Day, here’s a sheep and a deer getting married
Oh look, it's Rick Santorum's worst nightmare. Changmao the ram and Chunzi the doe are engaging in some sheep-on-deer marriage at China's Yunnan Provincial Wildlife Park today.
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Earth is losing 39 cubic miles of ice per year
Thanks to the GRACE satellite, we now know that the planet is shedding 150 billion tons of ice annually, like some gigantic glass of lemonade left out in the sun.
