Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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This winter’s snowstorms will have names like Draco, Q, and Khan
The Weather Channel wants to name winter storms things like "Gandolf." That's Gandolf with an O, got it? It has NOTHING TO DO with Tolkein.
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Watch an octopus take apart a camera while punching a shark
To researchers, this baited camera is equipment for monitoring underwater ecosystems. To an octopus, it's just a complicated lunchbox.
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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you
Thanks to a secret government nuclear facility, Lake Karachay may be the most polluted spot on the planet.
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Now you can get text messages from a cow’s vagina
It's getting harder to tell when dairy cows are in heat. But never fear, farmers! Now their genitals can text you.
