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Grain on Sports Illustrated
We have high standards for what we use,” LaVecchia says. “We want to buy Maine wood and support the local mills.”
A stout man with a full beard and gentle eyes, LaVecchia, 49, picks up a spokeshave and handles it like a sculptor wields a chisel. He started working with wood when he made his own snowboards while growing up in northern New Jersey. That tinkering led to a job at Burton. After 12 years in the snowboard industry, LaVecchia shifted his focus. He managed the construction of an 88-foot wooden schooner for the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes, Vt. After moving to York so he would have a shorter commute to surf, he embarked on another mission in 2005.
Build a better surfboard.
The Breathtaking, Disorienting Terrain of Greenland and Iceland
Photo: Daniel Beltra
ICELAND AND GREENLAND are stunningly beautiful from any angle, especially when seen from above. The varied texture, rich colors and otherworldly terrain borders on abstract—something Daniel Beltrá uses to great effect in his gorgeous aerial landscapes. “That’s part of the game I like to play,” he says. “You really don’t know what you’re looking at.”
NASA to 3D map the world’s forests using space lasers...SPACE LASERS
Trees have been making a valiant effort to gobble up the carbon dioxide we’ve been haphazardly spewing into the atmosphere — and you might think that, by now, we should have a pretty good estimate of how much CO2 our planet’s forests hold.
But it turns out that we don’t. Without a clear map of the world’s woodsy vegetation, scientists can’t make accurate predictions about, say, how much CO2 would leak into our atmosphere if someone hacked down a given forest, or how much carbon pollution could be sequestered by replanting one.
To give us more solid estimates, NASA is creating the first comprehensive 3D visualization of the world’s forests, using the coolest mapping tools known to humanity: satellites and lasers.
For those asking the question "who is the world's best bricklayer?"
Kava and the Rise of Healthy New York
There are certain factions of the PowderJet family that are all in on the Kava craze. Certain Vermont factions.
Kava drinks, used for centuries in ceremonial contexts throughout the South Pacific, are created by grinding the root of the plant into a powder and mixing it with water. Kava is legal and unregulated, and can be ordered online in the form of pills, which makes it popular among curious thrill-seeking college kids and vape connoisseurs. Its advertised effects are about the same as a cocktail: kava is a sedative used to relieve anxiety and relax the muscles. But, unlike alcohol, kava allegedly doesn’t interfere with any cognitive abilities, and, if you hydrate properly, it won’t give you a hangover.
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Ride the Snake
Here's a reminder that the 2016 Ride the Snake comp is coming up. If only we lived in Europe.
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to suck at bullfighting and be a bullfighter?
By all accounts, Barrera is not a particularly gifted bullfighter. What was it that drew you to him as a subject?
What was interesting to me is that he wasn't one of the gods of bullfighting. He didn't have the artistry, the duende that's expected from the great figuras, but rather he was just a human being trying to do this. His destiny was set in motion for him: his father was a failed bullfighter and put Antonio in front of the bulls when he was 7, but he just didn't have the goods. So he created his own brand of bullfighting that was really more about coming back from the dead, and became famous for it. And he had to keep that style because that was what drew people to see him.
FAST FORWARD: 30 Years of the Legendary Banked Slalom
The Toyota Setsuna is made of wood.
Don’t think of your grandma’s Woody, this Japanese concept car looks more like a speedboat about to take you way Back to the Future. Or maybe nowhere at all —since it’s not approved for riding on the road, not for sale, and basically a prototype Toyota is using to collect feedback in order to create future driving machines. The company has dedicated itself to getting carbon dioxide-omitting vehicles off the road within 35 years, so this is a further stride in that direction.
Remember when the Open mattered
Be the weekend warrior you wish to see in the world PT4
Sadly the world's fastest stoner will not be in the Olympics
He also loves to get high — especially while running. He entered the business of wholesale distribution for medical marijuana dispensaries after his running career fizzled in 2014. Last year, he won a 4.20-mile race for stoners in San Francisco; the grand prize was $500 worth of weed delivered to his doorstep.
“I threw up a lot. I’m finally able to take down water. I got a couple blisters, but I’m still pretty high, so I’m pretty good,” Barnicle told the San Francisco Chronicle after that race.
The paradox of Schroedinger’s Cat famously demonstrates that a quantum cat sealed in a box is both alive and dead at the same time until we look inside, at which point it becomes one or the other. Such is the weirdness of quantum mechanics. But if a mere act of observation determines the outcome of an experiment, what happens if we never look away? Answer: time effectively stands still.
This explains so much about society today
Full Article - grab a cup of coffee, this one is going to work the brain a bit
A color so black you cannot even see it
Obviously the first company to secure this for snowboard topsheets wins.
Vantablack, a new material created by British researchers at Surrey NanoSystems, absorbs all but 0.035% of visible light. This makes it the darkest man-made material in existence.