A Ninja style obstacle course is added to the Olympic pentathlon replacing the equestrian component.
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Ninja style obstacle course added to Olympic pentathlon
A Ninja style obstacle course is added to the Olympic pentathlon replacing the equestrian component.
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Just give Alexandra Petri a Pulitzer already. Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children. Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow.
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Co-op as affordable housing
The Swiss pioneering a different approach to affordable housing: co-ops. What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? In Switzerland’s member-based cooperative housing, new residents buy shares to gain admission to the building and get one vote in the corporation regardless of how many shares they own. The co-op uses the money…
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Bee nutrition supplement
There might be a way to save the bees–a nutritional supplement. Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that…
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Play ball, get a car
Back in the day, a college football player getting a car required either subterfuge or other shady creativity. Today, however, with the free for all that is NIL, players can get a car easily, and car dealers are becoming a power broker with programs. There has always been a mystique around cars in college football.…
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Printing The Onion
While not profitable yet, The Onion is making money with subscriptions to its print edition. Filled with spoof ads and satirical headlines that often take swings at the news of the day, the Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its…
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Robot rentals assisting human workers
Industrial robots are becoming more affordable for small and midsize companies, especially in situations where the companies can rent the machinery. The robots perform the repetitive, physically breaking work, allowing people to remain healthier and perform more valuable work. Buying a robot could cost as much as $500,000, and Mr. Calleja wasn’t even confident that…
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Banana Ball growth pushing up against MLB
As Banana Ball grows, where does it fit in the sports landscape with Major League Baseball? On a Friday night this summer, the New York Yankees packed Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in a rematch of last year’s World Series. An hour south that same evening in Anaheim, another major-league stadium hosted a sold-out ballgame,…
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Top 10 animal movie performances
The Ringer proposes a top 10 list of animal movie performances. Amusing at the very least, and the top choice is, well, a choice.
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Moving a Swedish church
An amazing photo essay of moving an entire church in Kiruna, Sweden.