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Mon. 02/14 - Rejected Olympic Sports


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Speed skiing, synchronized skating, ski ballet, and other rejected sports from the Olympics. Plus, remember that SpaceX rocket stage headed for the moon? Turns out it’s a different piece of rocket junk, not from SpaceX at all. And the tropical disease that may be on the verge of eradication in humans.

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  • Links:

    Speed skiing: too fast for the Olympics (Financial Times) 
  • 12 Sports That Used To Be In The Winter Olympics (BuzzFeed)
  • When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport (NY Times)
  • The Most Insane Ex-Olympic Sport! SPEED SKIING! ⛷ (Olympics, YouTube) 
  • HOW was this an Olympic sport? Ski ballet! (Olympics, YouTube)
  • Plot Twist: A Different Rogue Rocket Is Going to Hit the Moon (Gizmodo)
  • A rocket is still set to slam into the Moon next month — but it may not be from SpaceX after all (The Verge)
  • Astronomers now say the rocket about to strike the Moon is not a Falcon 9 (Ars Technica)
  • 1/26/22 episode about the SpaceX rocket stage (Kottke Ride Home)
  • Just 14 cases: Guinea worm disease nears eradication (Nature)
  • AirAsia flight diverted due to unexpected snake on the plane (NPR)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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