This article is amazing. I’m going to be wearing moccasins soon. Or flip flops in Brasil. Havaianas!

In a 1997 study, researchers Steven Robbins and Edward Waked at McGill University in Montreal found that the more padding a running shoe has, the more force the runner hits the ground with: In effect, we instinctively plant our feet harder to cancel out the shock absorption of the padding. (The study found the same thing holds true when gymnasts land on soft mats—they actually land harder.) We do this, …

The New Yorker has an amazing new article on elevators. I especially love this bit and it reminded me of how I feel about Airborne, astrology and other causational nonsense. For the record: there are no personality archetypes determined by the apparent relative positions of celestial bodies and you would have not gotten sick anyway.
And, this video, accompanying the New Yorker article, is fucking chilling. Try and watch it with the sound.

“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the …

…on top of that Central Asian weirdness is all this Richard-Gere do-gooder nonsense about the peace-loving Tibetans assaulted by the ruthless Red Chinese. Both parts of that story are wrong, wrong, wrong. The Tibetans were never peaceful people at all. They were one of the most warlike peoples in Central Asia and even conquered the Chinese capital, Chang’An, in their heyday.
THE EXILE - Tibet: Five to One Against - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd