Berlin Kung Fu Demonstration
I just found out about this treasure. It's a minute and fifty-one seconds of rare footage of kung fu masters demonstrating their skill at the 1936 summer Olympics in Germany. Yes, it is clearly choreographed. Yes it looks hokey. But only to the untrained eye. What you are really seeing is a very well orchestrated […]
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A history lesson Imagine a $100 Billion company’s network goes down. For every minute they’re disconnected, they’re losing out on tens of thousands of dollars. A technician is called in at twice his already hefty fee (with a guaranteed 5 hour minimum) to solve the issue. After a quick look around the server room he […]
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Introducing, Mr. Charles Atlas If you grew up reading comic books like I did, you probably saw this advertisement somewhere inside its pages: It’s perfect. It plays on your fear of not being able to defend yourself; as though muscles alone will keep you safe! The Man The photograph of the man in the lower left […]
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There’s a genius whose work you’re probably familiar with, but you may not recognize his name: Buckminster Fuller. The work you most likely recognize is this “Golf ball;” a geodesic sphere that lives as the visual anchor for Disney’s Epcot amusement park.Its real name is “Spaceship Earth,” and it’s a marvel in engineering terms. How in […]
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