10,000 steps in about three minutes.

Trying to make sure you take 10,000 steps per day? Nine-year-old dancer Lilyana Ilunga hits her number in about three minutes.

You might also want to check out Nia Dennis's recent floor routine for UCLA Gymnastics.

Jan 26, 2021

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“I believed, and others believed, that men who commit violence would not call us to ask for help. But something is happening, and maybe it’s that those old masculine models don’t work anymore.”

An antimachismo hotline in Colombia is working.

↩︎ The New York Times

One cost-effective way of sequestering carbon dioxide? Buying a coal mine (only $7.8 million!) and shuttering it.

↩︎ Marginal Revolution 2h

For your weekly wanderlust, another cycling adventure in Alaska with Bjørn Olson.

Hidden in the far north is a range of remote mountains where one can imagine the Aesir, Frost Giants, trolls, and cave bears reign supreme. Ferocious storms, neck-craning tors of marble, herds of herbivores, and stealthy carnivores fill the realm where few humans tread, and even fewer approach with a bicycle.

From the close of this year's Tokyo Paralympic Games, a dance for 126 performers designed by French choreographer Sadeck Waff. (Though honestly better with sound off.)

From 1921, a frightening patent application for a concealed weapon for bank tellers.

↩︎ Futility Closet 2h

Other uses for a large abandoned swimming pool: how about an amphitheater with terraced seating?

↩︎ designboom 3h

Twitter engineers explain how Nobel Prize-winning economics influence their thinking.

A thread of lightly interesting stuff (because understanding the impacts of likes and retweets isn't nothing).

You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners - David Card, Josh Angrist (@metrics52) & Guido Imbens.

Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter, and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021

We use Double Machine Learning to understand the causal impact of engagement actions. Our work leverages research by Chernozhukov et al. (2018), and is influenced by Imbens & Rubin (2015). https://t.co/BicSMhnsog https://t.co/Sjphq081Xq
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021

Recent work by Seoul-based artist Sun Woo, "integrating digital tools with traditional approaches."

↩︎ Booooooom 3h

New "robotic" textiles are said to be useful for training singers' and athletes' breathing movements.

↩︎ MIT News 3h

More and more museums are collecting in the midst of crises. Luckily (?), our era is replete with them.

↩︎ The New Yorker 3h

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A history of orchestras from the 16th century to around the middle of the 20th century, when they ceased evolving.

via Laughing Squid

13h

Horror movie filming locations you can visit.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 13h

Over the following months, Chabrière would call her “a real dung beetle,” “a mercenary who only obeys money,” and a person “paid to attack and discredit certain targets.” His supporters piled on, sometimes with vague threats.

What happened when a leader in the field of scientific integrity pointed out errors in a hydroxychloroquine proponent’s work.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News

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Because it's never too late to be scarred for life: a list of lesser-known horror movies.

↩︎ The Morning News 14h

An illustrated guide to North America's indie bookstores, by Jamise Harper and Jane Mount.

↩︎ Literary Hub 18h

Lockdown shrank our worlds—and our words. After losing vocabulary during the pandemic, a writer fights back.

↩︎ One More Question 18h

Macron denounces colonialism, but uses monetary policy to keep African ex-colonies tethered to France.

↩︎ Foreign Policy 18h

The new Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone can make and receive calls over Bluetooth.

↩︎ Gizmodo 20h

A trip to Agrafa, an area of Greece whose name means "unwritten," as it's so remote that it was once left off maps.

↩︎ BBC 22h

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