The Badass Female Gladiators of Ancient Rome.
Tommie Smith’s Raised Fist at the 1968 Olympics Inspired a Massive Golden Sculpture That Signifies the Art of His Protest.
Scientists Recreate Neanderthal Cooking Methods and the Results Are Eye-Opening. (via Damn Interesting)
How the Sports Bra kicked off a women’s sports movement. This article has nothing to do with underwear. (via Metafilter)
Capcom Made A Game That Doesn't Belong In 2024 And It's Fantastic.
Why Does ‘Late’ Mean “Dead”? The “dead” meaning of ‘late’ has to do with recency. (via Strange Company)
An Olympic hero emerges.
Bike lanes and narrowed streets don’t slow emergency vehicles. People love to complain about traffic calming, but it makes roads safer.
Jerome Brouillet's shot of Gabriel Medina is an amazing photo. This video lets us know just how quickly this happened. Talk about having the right person in the right spot at the right time with the right equipment!
ReplyDeleteThe Olympic surfer is nuts. In the video he escapes a long run in the curl to swing up the wave and leap off the board in jubilation. But with the board attached to his leg by a rope Its a wonder the board didn’t bonk him when he hit the water.
ReplyDeleteThe story about Smith and Carlos goes into a lot of detail how the action on the podium was planned. I was always under the impression it was a last minute decision and one raised the right fist and the other the left so they could share a pair of gloves they borrowed from the Australian silver medallist.
Royally screwing up traffic is called “traffic calming”? grumble spit growl grunt glare fart poopyheads
xoxoxoBruce