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Apparently, charging $7 for a cup of coffee makes suckers believe it tastes better By Sarah Miller, grist.org Starbucks has come out with some super fancy new coffee that costs $7. Supposedly it tastes really awesome. (At that price it better taste like God’s balls.) Comedian Jimmy Kimmel was skeptical that it was really all…
Your couch is poisoning you By Susie Cagle, grist.org Have you been sleeping on the couch to avoid your toxic mattress? Well, stop that. Because your couch is probably poisoning you right now. Unless you’re at work, in which case right when you get home. That’s the takeaway fro… RT @grist: A new study has…
Toxic toys may be poisoning our best friends By Susie Cagle, grist.org My favorite people to buy holiday presents for are animal people. They are always so grateful! But sometimes maybe they shouldn’t be. A new study out of Texas Tech finds that the chemicals in hard plastic bumper dog toys readily leac… RT @grist:…
Russia had a three-day traffic jam By Sarah Miller, grist.org There was a three-day-long traffic jam in Russia over the weekend. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snowstorm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Now, one might think a country… RT @grist: Russia had a…
garbage cans turned into living containers by philipp stingl P.Stingl, designboom.com garbage cans turned into ‘living containers’ by philipp stingl as the demographic evolution in germany and other countries becomes more dramatic, social systems will collapse and from the ashes an aging society will rise, marked by crime, sickn… garbage dumpsters turned into living containers…
This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe By Sarah Miller, grist.org Do you remember in The Big Lebowski when TBL himself says to the Dude, “You told Brandt on the phone, and Brandt told me?” Well, that’s kind of the same way that this device, called CitiSense, works. It measures…
America’s fastest-growing state: North Frackota By Philip Bump, grist.org According to the weirdly huge text on the Census Bureau’s website, the fastest-growing state in the country in 2011 was North Dakota, which grew at a rate of 2.17 percent. The second fastest-growing state was the District of Columbia, wh… RT @grist: America’s fastest-growing state: North…
Chicken farmers replace antibiotics with oregano oil By Sarah Miller, grist.org Animals raised to be food get diseases easily. There’s a lot of them hanging around in one place, waiting to die, so it’s not terribly surprising that they get sick. Precautions have to be taken, which is why these animals have long b… RT…
Concord, Mass., is the first city to ban plastic water bottles By Sarah Miller, grist.org Leave it to Massachusetts: trailblazers in gay marriage and just all-around good old-fashioned community-minded liberal folks. Mitt Romney notwithstanding, can the world really be surprised that the adorable Massachusetts town of… RT @grist: Did you know Americans use 1,500 bottles…
People will go out of their way to hit turtles with cars, because people are jerks By Sarah Miller, grist.org A student at Clemson University made a disturbing discovery when he placed a rubber turtle in the road and spent an hour watching what passing cars would do. Out of 257 cars that passed, seven…
Supermarket is saving $80 million a year just by putting doors on its refrigerators By Sarah Miller, grist.org You know how when you were a teenager (or a 20-something living on your parents’ couch) and you stood around with the refrigerator door hanging open, and your mom would be all “hey, I’m not paying to…
Rupert Murdoch still stupid about climate, now thinks pollution is good for trees By Sarah Miller, grist.org Close your eyes and imagine a world without Rupert Murdoch. Ahhhhhhhh. OK, you can open your eyes now. Sorry. Murdoch still exists. He owns everything. And he still doesn’t know dick about climate science. In fact, he now…
Honest junk food advertisements show you what kind of crap you’re really eating By Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Graphic designer Laura P. created these posters for the nasty ingredients hiding in some of your favorite junk foods. Would Twinkies and hot dogs be as popular if these were plastered in bus stations and movie theaters? Well,…
Only vegetarians will be allowed to go to Mars By Jess Zimmerman, grist.org If you want to be in the first wave of Mars colonists, your best bet is to buddy up to Elon Musk — cofounder of PayPal, CEO of Tesla Motors, and all-around smartest guy in the room regardless of the room. He…
Apple is moving into the wind energy business By Sarah Miller, grist.org If you are sick of Apple ruling at everything, you can stop reading now. But if you’d like to hear about how they’re working to harness one of nature’s cleanest, most plentiful resources, continue. Because Apple is now branching out fro… RT @grist:…
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows what’s best for you, and fighting climate change ain’t it By Philip Bump, grist.org You’d think that by now John Mackey would have learned to shut up. The Whole Foods CEO and cofounder would no doubt be incensed at my saying so, of course, since — in classic hyper-entitled,…
The 14 fossil-fuel projects poised to f*ck up the climate By David Roberts, grist.org In a justly famous Rolling Stone piece, Bill McKibben popularized the notion of “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” We have a “carbon budget,” between now and 2050, of roughly 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. If we emit mo… RT @grist: Most…
Hitcase and ChestR Mount let the iPhone see some action Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com With rugged, mount-equipped iPhone cases such as the Optrix XD, it’s now possible to use your phone as an actioncam. Most of these cases, however, aren’t designed to be mounted on the user’s chest – a viewpoint that often offers some of…
Review: Masimo iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter Will Shanklin, gizmag.com If someone asked you what you can do with an iPhone, you could say playing games, listening to music, watching videos and even making phone calls. One thing that you probably wouldn’t mention is checking your blood oxygen saturation. But you can n… Review: Masimo iSpO2 Pulse…
Pentax launches MX-1 enthusiast-level compact Paul Ridden, gizmag.com The days when the handy pocket snapper was the weapon of choice for grabbing a quick photo or two have all-but gone, thanks largely to the increasingly capable cameras on the ubiquitous smartphone. Manufacturers looking to tempt folks into buying … Pentax launches MX-1 enthusiast-level compact http://flip.it/7pfLg…
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Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of……
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