Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Mesmerizing real-time map of the world’s planes makes air travel look like a fungal infection
Eugh, what’s that swarming all over the surface of the planet? It looks like an insect horde, or maybe some kind of crawling fungus, but no, it’s just us in […]
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Earth’s most beautiful fractal patterns have to be seen to be believed
Computer science professor Paul Bourke has an exhaustive amount of information about fractals on his website, but for my money the coolest part is his collection of naturally occurring fractal […]
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Astronauts fixed the space station with a toothbrush
Most of us postpone tossing our old toothbrushes in the landfill by putting them to work as cleaning tools. But very few of us postpone tossing our old toothbrushes in […]
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Frustrated Russians get rid of potholes by stuffing them into politicians’ mouths
The writers for Russian blog URA.RU got fed up with unfixed potholes in the city of Yekaterinburg, so they decided to force-feed them to politicians. Or, anyway, giant cartoons of […]
