Would You Pay Less for Backup Storage You Can’t Immediately Access? [Chatroom]

So Amazon Glacier is here as super cheap storage for “data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.” But that’s different from a lot of the storage you might have used in the past. More »

How Is It Possible That Olympic Athletes Keep Breaking World Records? [Olympics]

The Olympics are over. Athletes have been crowned. GIFs have been made. And World records have been broken. In four years, we’ll do the same thing all over again. And world records will continue to be broken. How is that possible? How do Olympic athletes keep getting better and keep breaking records? Will it ever stop? Can humans ever max out? More »

The Olympics Uses Special Sand That Doesn’t Stick to Beach Volleyball Players—Could They Ever Use Synthetic Sand? [Olympics]

Any beach goer knows that spending time in the sand means spending infinitely more time trying to scrub sand off your body. Sand just sticks everywhere. But why doesn’t it stick to Olympic volleyball players? It’s because the Olympics always use special, highly regulated sand. More »

The Stoner Channel: Legalizing Hemp, Finding Fewer Fields, and Other Things to Make a Federal Case Out of [Video]

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The Stoner Channel: Morgan Freeman on Weed, Wildebeests on Alligators, and Pink Floyd on KQED [Video]

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Everything You Need For Tonight’s MLB All-Star Game [Toolkit]

This evening Major League Baseball’s brightest stars will gather for a half-hearted nine innings at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium. It might not be the most exciting game of the year, but it’s the easiest way to catch all of your favorite players in one night. So while you prepare to have a few friends over to watch the gamestravaganza, here are a few last-minute suggestions to make the evening even more authentic. More »

The Stoner Channel: Stunting Plants, Stone on Weed, and Colombia Says "Si, Se Puede" to Cocaina [Video]

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The Stoner Channel: RZA Brings the Pain, Mexico Tries Something New, and GNR Does the Ritz [Video]

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The Stoner Channel: Hulk Rage, Phytoremediation, and Other Things We Don’t Understand [Video]

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