Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Vintage ads want you to eat vitamin donuts, put babies in cellophane, and spray everything with DDT
We don't think anything from our time period, besides possibly the Double Down, will cause as much consternation in the future as these vintage ads do now.
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Here’s a guy riding a bicycle the size of a shoe
This Russian video shows a man riding a teeny-tiny bicycle like he’s a bear in the circus. It is mesmerizing.
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This nine-foot kinetic sculpture of San Francisco is made of over 100,000 toothpicks
Scott Weaver’s “Rolling Through the Bay” is nine feet tall and seven feet wide, i.e. both taller and wider than my bathroom. It’s got four different paths for ping-pong balls […]
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McDonald’s tried to make ‘onion nuggets’ happen
Given the kind of stuff that gets the fast-food green light, it’s hard to believe that there are even more concepts that end up on the cutting room floor. But […]
