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- The Olympic Games are underway, and this year it’s the Summer Olympics, the dose we need to make it to the glory of the Winter Games. Meanwhile, you can pick out which event you identify best with. I’ll take Ultimate Ampersand.
- Also in the Olympics, five sports are being added for the 2020 Games, which has the usual suspects concern-trolling about the integrity of the games or some such — but all sorts of sports have been added, removed, and re-added over the last century-plus.
- Now, I do prefer the Winter Olympics, but the Summer Games always provide an opportunity to remember Mary Carillo’s 2004 special comment on badminton. Good times.
- This Week in Online Quizzes: BuzzFeed wants to guess your age based on your Star Wars opinions. It had me about 13 years older than I actually am, but hey, guess I have an old soul.
- PTBN’s resident Ranker & Filer, Jordan Duncan, sends word of one of the closest fictional analogues for Der Trump.
- GPS calculations are so precise now that they have to adjust for continental drift.
- This Week in Disney: my friends, our day has come. At Tokyo Disney Resort, you can eat Donald Duck’s ass.
- This Week in Public Design: cars are designed to crash in ways that are relatively safe, but the things we crash into must be designed with that in mind too.
- This was making the rounds last week: it turns out that evidence of the effectiveness of flossing is actually pretty thin on the ground. It seems that maybe flossing is an overblown folk remedy…or perhaps we’re just not doing it correctly. Flossing cannot fail, it can only be failed?
- Angel Colon, unable to walk after being shot at Pulse two months ago, is dancing.
- This Week in Things to Look at for a While: a T-handle spinning in zero gravity.
- It’s always a special day when paintings are found to be covering other paintings.
- Restoring and renovating an ancient Egyptian papyrus takes a great deal of painstakingly careful work.
- Sometimes you’re minding your own business at a local pub and a Shetland pony wanders in. Just don’t let the pony drink too many people’s leftover beer.
- This Week in Things I Want: the Julius Caesar pencil holder.
- If you have a rubber ducky — and really, who among us doesn’t? — consider taking it to its ancestral homeland to visit the source of all things.
