The Finisher is a 45 minute documentary of Jasmin Paris, first woman to complete The Barkley Marathon. It makes for a good sequel to the Barkley Marathon documentary.
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Jasmin Paris, first woman to complete The Barkley
The Finisher is a 45 minute documentary of Jasmin Paris, first woman to complete The Barkley Marathon. It makes for a good sequel to the Barkley Marathon documentary.
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Millennials became uncool?
A tale old as time, a younger generation calling an older generation uncool. And now, Gen Z hath judged Millennials. In fact, much of the ire provoked by gen Z’s teasing is driven by a sense that the younger generation are merely jumping on a cool and trendy bandwagon built by millennials. “We paved the…
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Infinite Lego domino loop
Fun video of an infinite Lego domino loop.
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Drone summons lightning
It’s like something out of a sci fi movie–a drone summoning lightning. Earlier this month, the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) successfully used a drone equipped with a lightning-proof cage to essentially summon lightning in an effort to mitigate damage from an incoming thunderstorm. According to NTT, lightning causes up to…
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The Speed Project, a secret ultramarathon
The Speed Project is a secret ultra-marathon, starting in Los Angeles and ending in Las Vegas. This, he explained, was a welcome to the Speed Project, a 340-mile relay race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas with no designated route, no specific rules and only one goal: to get there as fast as possible. Arend,…
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Introducing the Slate truck
Two segments of the U.S. car market that are non-existent: an affordable truck and a basic electric vehicle that isn’t $35,000+. The Slate truck aims to do both for approximately $20,000. Open sourced specifications allow for customization. If the build quality is good and the aftermarket accessories create a healthy modding community, this thing will…
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Import Immature
Spencer Wright muses on how the world changes, there are things that never mature, namely, imports. I bring all of this up because the weird thing, and stick with me here, is that the world around us doesn’t mature. It keeps changing, even as we mostly stop doing so. The world doesn’t care that we’re…
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A sofa in the woods brought a town together
A fun story where someone dumped a fly tipped sofa in the woods, and it became a spontaneous photography studio.
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A universal antivenom
It sounds like a joke based on a basic misunderstanding of science, but a man who’s been slowly injecting himself with snake venom may now provide a source for a universal antivenom. Over nearly 18 years, the man, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with more than 650 carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to build…
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Cats bringing dead gifts
My mother feeds a local feral cat named, Rigby. While the cat has never left dead gifts, he has been seen carrying dead animals. Most recently, a squirrel. There are a couple of hypotheses for why cats bring their catch home, Emmanuelle Baudry, an urban ecologist at Paris-Saclay University, told Live Science. The main hypothesis…