Grist List
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The week in GIFs: Genies, junk, and Mary Jane
There was plenty of odd news this week, even not counting April Fools' Day.
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These cute $40 watches can run forever on sunlight
SmileSolar gives you the choice of 15 patterns and colors -- as well as no excuse for being late EVER AGAIN.
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Eat your heart out, Rome: This 3D-printed village was built in a day
A hyper-insulated house made through lightning-fast production and with repurposed materials? What's the catch?
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20 percent of the tricolored blackbirds on Earth are in imminent danger — but you can help save them
A flock of 50,000 tricolored blackbirds is under imminent threat, but you can help them for a dollar a bird.
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This fancy fridge makes your kale even more nutritious
With the NutriLight, “essentially, synthetic photosynthesis is occurring in your crisper drawer,” as Modern Farmer puts it.
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Smoggy Chinese city offers residents bags of fresh air
Up to 20 people could slurp clean air at a time. One woman even said it made her baby kick.
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Amazon and Twitter are dirty dirty scoundrels, says Greenpeace
Amazon and Twitter each got three F’s and one D in a new Greenpeace report on energy efficiency. See ya in summer school, suckas!
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This 92-year-old who got arrested for protesting coal is our new hero
Bill Ryan is a World War II vet, climate activist, and total badass.
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You’ve never seen an LED lamp like this
The lighted sheet looks like a magical page from an unpublished Harry Potter book. (Or a glow-in-the-dark Barbie hammock.)
