Better Than Dune Buggies: Crosskart Racing at New York's Monticello Motor Club via Robb Report read "Maybe all that social distancing made the folks at New York’s premiere (and highly manicured) private track even more imaginative. The team at Catskills-based Monticello took out some trees in the center of its South Course, and turned it into a dirt-and-grass path that both intersects and joins up with the asphalt. The result is a rallycross circuit that includes ... Read More
A Data-Driven Trip Through the USA, 2020’s Highest Paid Athletes, and the Battle for Quantum Supremacy
Connected Papers: A visual tool for researchers to find + explore academic papers test it out How does it work? To create each graph, we analyze an order of ~50,000 papers and select the few dozen with the strongest connections to the origin paper. In the graph, papers are arranged according to their similarity. That means that even papers that do not directly cite each other can be strongly connected and very closely positioned. Connected Papers is not a citation ... Read More
The Ultimate Tennis Showdown League, Copy + Paste IRL, and Berluti Buggy
Stream Now: Get Ready for the Ultimate Tennis Showdown League League play begins this Sat, 6/13 and Sun, 6/14. Subscribe here. Patrick Mouratoglou — coach of world champion Serena Williams and mentor to rising star Coco Gauff — has decided to launch his own league.. the UTS will tap 10 of the world’s top players, including Stefano Tsitsipas, Matteo Berrettini, David Goffin, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Benoit Paire, and Richard Gasquet, who will all compete in a series of ... Read More
Time Inversion, Future of Microsoft Office, and the Third Particle Kingdom
This Is What an 1869 MIT Entrance Exam Looks Like: Could You Have Passed the Test? via Open Culture read "The answer, according to this video? Not very hard... Nowadays, the students who make it into MIT have average SAT and ACT scores in the 99th percentile. Of 21,312 first-year applicants hoping to join the Class of 2023, only 1,427 made it. That's an admission rate of 6.7 percent. What a difference 150 years can make!" To take the 1869 entrance examination in ... Read More
3D Clone Your Space, the Lost Score, and EV Dragster vs. Honda AWD Rocket
Auto Showdown! What's More Impressive... Watch This Electric Drag Racing Record Nearly Silently Fall via Jalopnik here https://youtu.be/9bxwQeKhYXQ 1500HP AWD Civic 1.1s 0-60MPH! via The Racing Channel https://youtu.be/VSEEgL4UTVs Create 3D Digital Clones of Any Space On Your Phone or iPad w. Matterport Capture via COOL Hunting learn more "Matterport Capture lets individuals of all photography skill levels, snap, compress, and share 3D clones of any space with ... Read More
The Battle of Fury Road, WAVE, and The Cavendish Experiment
SpaceX Made An ISS Docking Simulator And Now I've Lost Track of Time try it Seriously Cool - d'strict's Anamorphic Illusion "WAVE" watch d’strict is a South Korean design company that creates stunning visual experiences which can be licensed for use on any shape + size indoor or outdoor screen. More info here Next on the "Ocho": Competitive Chase Tag via SportsCenter https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1261777480957997056 The $1M Magnus ... Read More
Storm Drain Surfing, Red Dot Redemption, and ASMR for Gearheads
Epic Interactive: The Evolution of the American Census via The Pudding explore Red Dot Redemption: ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard Is Now A Portable Bluetooth Device buy Lenovo has duplicated the laptop keyboard and centralized TrackPoint for use alongside a desktop, offering Windows and Android users a wireless Bluetooth-capable substitute that looks and feels exactly like the original. Excel @ Excel watch the tutorial + read the transcript The 30 most ... Read More
