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Tyshawn Jones The General

Ooops, guess we’re doing two tonight. Goodness. Compare this to the video from last night . Tyshawn Jones is just getting so much speed up for these tricks. It’s like a different sport. Both so great to watch. Saw a quote from Tyshawn Jones where he said he grew up watching

Urban Freeride Fabio Wibmer

Well, Fabio Wibmer is very, very fast on his bicycle. Just about the first trick in here is Fabio successfully jumping the Lyon 25 Stair we learned about earlier this week . And, uh, he does something we didn’t see in that other video because if you make it to the end of the

How Do You Rhyme in Sign Language?

A conversation at dinner with the kids left me wanting to know how to rhyme in sign language and when I found out, it feels like it should have been obvious . In phonology (the study of the smallest units of language), the parts of a signed word are: handshape, location, palm

‘I Will Always Love You’ at 50

Dolly Parton’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ was released 50 years ago a couple weeks ago and it’s a very good song. We all know Parton famously wrote IWALY and Jolene on the same day, which, like, one time I made 4 batches of ice cream and packed them all into pints and cleaned the

Dog Duty

"It’s a sympathetic image—the community uniting in gratitude behind a civic-minded poop-scooper—but, reader, this is not the full story."

Phil and Phyllis Punxsutawney Had Babies

Punxsutawney Phil and his mate Phyllis have had babies and both of the articles I read about this deeply weirded me out. Listen, I get it, you don’t get to be President of The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle by being normal about groundhogs, but it feels a little culty

When Whales Could Walk… Excuse Me?

At the beginning of this documentary, the narrator says something about “how did whales end up in the ocean,” and to be honest that fucked me up because whales make sense to me if I think of them as something that’s always been in the ocean, and if I have to reorient my mind

Electronic paper

‘Like colour-changing styrofoam’: a close-up look at electronic paper shows why it’s still a pale imitation of the real thing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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