Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Twitter founders are investing in vegan meat
Twitter cofounders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have some proven expertise in determining the next big thing. So it's notable that they're investing in a vegan meat company called Beyond Meat, whose products are said to be the most freakily convincing fake meat yet.
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Tile your home with recycled money
Pennies are so useless as legal tender that there's genuine debate about whether we should even keep them around. You could dump them in the Coinstar machine ... or you could use them to make an awesome, cost-effective copper flooring.
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2,500-mph train could get you from New York to London in an hour
Nature abhors a vacuum, but transit nerds and people eager to see a science fiction future LOVE IT. That’s because a vacuum is the secret ingredient for this (theoretical, but […]
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Giant LEGO wildlife is cooler than anything you made as a kid
The theme of the new installation at the Reiman Gardens, a massive public garden at Iowa State University, is “Nature Connects.” That usually means something about the complex interdependency of […]
