Random links
- Olympic Bodies: They Just Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- The best body types for particular sporting events.
- Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas
- "So since 2005 the 19 plants receiving the waste gas payments have profited handsomely from an unlikely business: churning out more harmful coolant gas so they can be paid to destroy its waste byproduct. The high output keeps the prices of the coolant gas irresistibly low, discouraging air-conditioning companies from switching to less-damaging alternative gases. That means, critics say, that United Nations subsidies intended to improve the environment are instead creating their own damage."
- Gabby Douglas, Ryan Lochte: Why Families of America’s Olympics Athletes Are Broke
- "Gabby Douglas’s mother declared bankruptcy. Ryan Lochte’s family faces foreclosure on their home. Years of spending huge sums, with little outside assistance, to prepare their kids to become Olympic heroes leaves many U.S. families on the brink of financial disaster." Perhaps it has something to do with basically devoting your life to a pursuit with less practical value than even many of the more useless types of university degrees?
- Animal eyes
- Pictures of different types of eyes you can find in nature.
- Legalize It: An Argument For 'Doping' In Sports
- A comparison of doping to other athlete behaviours that seem equally intended to game the system.