I usually come in middle-of-the-pack and have to bike and run my way out of that hole, so to finish in the top 15% of the swim was a huge win leaving me in much better shape to cycle-run my way towards the front…at least it should have if I’d checked my bike properly… ...
Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot, who called it Scrabble. Sales were fairly abysmal at first...
The south I saw on that drive was the result of a shape I have come to know very well. It is called the “tick effect.” Phototropism, the way plant growth is influenced by light, leads to tree branches in the northern hemisphere growing closer to ho...