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Go, go, gadget Grist: Help us stay on the cutting edge
Can you imagine Austin Powers without his Shaguar? Or Maxwell Smart without the shoe phone? Grist can't go far without the right tech tools, either.
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Joe Biden doesn’t need tires, and neither do you, America
Avuncular veep Joe Biden hits up a Costco to buy children's books and pie but no car tires. Why? Because Joe knows driving is for losers.
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The amazing frogfish is a master of disguise
For the frogfish, every day is Halloween. They're going as a sexy sponge! Or a sexy algae-covered rock.
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Prehistoric poo yields clues about concentration of people in the environment
Scientists have found that a chemical found in human feces is a good way to figure out where people have lived and for how long and in what concentrations.
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Meet the new fish named after Barack Obama (and the ones for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and Al Gore)
Etheostoma obama, the spangled darter, was secretly spawned in Kenya.
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Forget everything you’re doing and just daydream about jumping on this 170-foot-long trampoline in a forest
Maybe all sidewalks should be trampolines?
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Watch an escaped baby zebra run amok on Staten Island
Unfortunately for Razzi, he is a super-cute baby zebra, which means he attracted quite a lot of attention and was caught too quickly for anyone to even set up an @EscapedBabyZebra parody Twitter account.
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The Navy is laying off most of its trained spy-dolphins
A few have to stick around and like, look for mines and stuff. Sucks.
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Pasture blazed: How more wildfires could result in less grass-fed meat
As the charbroiled western states cool down for the winter, ranchers are bracing themselves for year-round fire risk. Here's what that means for the meat on our plates.
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Wrecking Thanksgiving: Survey of 18 major environmental organizations finds total ignorance of climate science
Who wants to talk about climate on a holiday, especially Thanksgiving, when the spirit is generous and food inviting? Not me, I don’t generally volunteer to discuss the matter outside […]
