Articles by Jess Zimmerman

Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.

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You can apply to be a professional polar bear spotter

Do you have outdoors experience, good eyesight, firearms expertise, and a loud voice? You could go work for the governor of the Svalbard Islands, spotting polar bears.

Jess Zimmerman Climate & Energy
This is what happens when you don’t double-check your GPS

You know cars can't climb stairs. We know cars can't climb stairs. But this driver, and more importantly his GPS, did not seem to know that cars can't climb stairs.

Jess Zimmerman Cities
Watch a solar plane fly across America

The current leg of its trip will take the plane from California to Phoenix, but Solar Impulse is in it for the long haul, crossing the entire country in the next few weeks.

Jess Zimmerman Technology
Make your commute more exciting with these Super Mario transit maps

Dave Delisle's maps imagine your commute as a trek through classic games.

Jess Zimmerman Cities