The Ultimate Adrenaline Rush Run with the bulls Ernest Hemmingway made this a famous male 1) rite of passage in his immortal book, The Sun Also Rises. Now it’s a magnet for thrill-seekers the world

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The Ultimate Pitching Machine B y Tom McNichol / Originally published in WIRED Hardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into precision-guided flamethrowers 1 I t’s the fastest hu

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Why Are Some People Double-Jointed? Can you bend your thumb backwards until it touches your wrist? If you join your hands behind your back, can you lift them over your head without letting go? If you can, you might be what some people call double-joi

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The American Museum of Natural Historys Hayden Planetarium hosted a discussion of the future of manned space flight on March 15th. Retired Air Force General Lester Lyles was asked about the militarys interest in space: Its the high ground. Its the ul

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Ben was watching Ultimate Fighting on TV. In Ultimate Fighting, two fighters fight inside a cage. The 8-sided cage is about 30 feet across. The cage is almost six feet high. The fighters are barefoot and shirtless. They wear fingerless gloves. They p

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What exactly is the power that drives nature's most famous jaws? In New Zealand, this great white shark drowned in a fisherman's net. And scientists Kara Yopak and Clinton Duffy are preparing an ultra-rare great white shark dissection. Ah, I've never

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