Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Giant water balloon mosaic shows how much water it takes to make a burger
This video from European nonprofit Generation Awake illustrates how much water it takes to produce a burger, by laying down the equivalent amount in water balloons.
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Newly discovered mushroom is actually a rubber vagina
Well here’s a story that sounds like an urban legend: Villagers in China unearthed a mysterious plant that they thought might be some type of mushroom. It’s described as “fleshy […]
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The best pun about wind energy, you’re welcome
This made me laugh way, way harder than it should.
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50-million-year-old turtles having sex
Scientists in Germany have found fossils of turtles mating that are nearly 50 million years old. That makes them the oldest fossils of vertebrates going at it that we’ve found […]
