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Border Patrol beagle retires
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- Border Patrol beagle retires
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- 10 years ago
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- Jasper the beagle just retired from his job at the airport, where he kept America safe.
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- Intimacy for rent: Inside the business of paid cuddling
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- 10 years ago
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- Professional cuddlers say there's nothing like a hug to make you feel good, even if you have to pay for one.
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- Toyota's baby robot Kirobo Mini can comment on how you drive
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- 10 years ago
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- Toyota just unveiled a tiny, chatty companion for Japanese drivers. The baby robot Kirobo Mini can read and respond to your emotions and remember the time you've spend together. Companion robots have been popular in Japan, where aging and low birth rate have led to more people living alone or childless.
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- The single migration out of Africa that populated the globe
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- 10 years ago
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- We already knew humanity started in Africa. But what we didn't know was when our ancestors migrated beyond the continent and across the globe. Three recent studies published in Nature answer that question and found that there was a single exodus more than 50,000 years ago. The researchers collectively analyzed the genomes of 787 people from more than 280 populations that included Mayans, Sherpas, and African pygmies. This was unique because most prior research sequenced genomes mainly from Europe and China. What our video to see how the migration made its way across the globe.
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- Nick Denton interview at Quartz
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney interviewed Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, at an event in our New York headquarters on Oct. 4, 2016. This is a recording of the livestream.
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- The world's first non-rectangular soccer field
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Turns out, soccer fields can come in all shapes and sizes. Khlong Toei district in Bangkok is now home to four non-rectangular soccer fields. They were designed by the Thai real estate developer AP Thailand. The creators wanted to challenge the notion of wasted spaces, especially unused areas between apartment buildings and back alleys. The fields are irregularly shaped but soccer rules still apply. Watch our video to see what these nontraditional soccer fields look like.
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- President Obama: the Tourist-in-Chief
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- As President Obama's term winds down, the tourist-in-chief, is checking items off his travel bucket list.
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- Sex workers talk about their most expensive service: companionship.
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The most expensive and requested service in these legal brothels in Nevada, is not necessarily sex, but companionship and intimacy, specifically something called ""The Girlfriend Experience" (or GFE).
The women of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch talk about the companionship involved in legal prostitution. Dennis Hof's girls include the paid intimacy in their offering of services and is the most expensive.
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- Inside Nevada’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The women of Nevada's Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel are both sex workers and master negotiators.
Come for the sex, stay for the negotiating skills: At Nevada's Moonlite Bunny Ranch, success depends less on beauty and more on a woman's skill at asking for what she deserves.
Unlike most industries, many legal sex workers in legal prostitution are paid more than their illegal counterparts. The price difference is in part due to the negotiation, which creates an opportunity for price discrimination (charging more to customers willing to pay). The brothels are legal, but listing prices are not. Negotiation skills are mandatory for these women.
The brothel has something of an employee manual that contains tips and instructions on how to negotiate. The Bunny Bible was written by Dennis Hof and his COO, Suzette Cole.
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- The reason why millions of Americans have trouble voting
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- In every election for the last century, nearly half of Americans haven't voted. This video explains how complex, inefficient registration rules have become the biggest administrative obstacle to voting in the U.S.
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- This cute mole rat may go extinct beneath Hungary's refugee fence
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Only 400 blind mole rats are left in the world, and a major population that burrows beneath the Hungarian-Serbian border may be endangered by border patrols. Now, conservationists are trying to find them and relocate them to a safer home.
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- Sculptures made with Ukraine Crisis shrapnels that killed people
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Ukraine Crisis receded from the headlines, but the country stills suffers with 1.8 million people displaced by conflict with Russian-backed fighters. Two artists collected scraps of war from the country's ravaged eastern frontline and created monuments to the tragedy.
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- Janet Yellen is having a bad week
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- It's been a rough week for Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen. On Monday, she was attacked by Donald Trump at the first presidential debate. He charged that the Fed was "doing political things" by keeping interest rates low. Then a few days later, Yellen sat before the House Financial Services Committee. She was grilled by congressmen about oversight of big banks in the wake of the Wells Fargo scandal as well as over a central bank official's contribution to the Hillary Clinton campaign. If you're having a tough week, watch our video and feel a bit better that you're not in Yellen's shoes.
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- World's largest radio telescope can "hear" the universe's edge
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Measuring 1640 feet across and 10x as sensitive as other top telescopes, China's brand new FAST telescope is "listening" for the universe's biggest mysteries, from dark matter to alien communication. The country aims to become a leading space power.
Video by Jingnan Peng
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- 360 video: Palestinian refugees in Gaza
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Take a look around one of the most densely populated places on earth. This 360-degree video shows a half square mile area in Gaza that's home to more than 110,000 Palestinian refugees.
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- Who won the debate? Depends where you watched it.
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The consensus among the media is that Hillary Clinton won 2016's first US presidential debate. But if you watched the TV coverage in the first few hours immediately after the debate, the consensus wasn't as clear.
If you were watching Fox News, you learned that the moderator was biased, that Clinton was robotic, and that she and Donald Trump basically battled to a draw. But if you watched MSNBC, you learned that Trump had done so badly it was actually unlikely he'd participate in further debates.
"Hillary won the first debate" will most likely become the accepted version of events. But as you can see in this video, on the night of, many different versions of the story compete to become the one everyone remembers.
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- Self-driving chairs (not cars) are here
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Bygone are the days of standing in line, thanks to self-driving chairs. Customers in Japan can now wait to be seated by sitting in chairs that automatically move them up the queue. The chairs were created by the automaker Nissan, which has been developing autonomous driving technology for its vehicles. The technology relies on cameras that detect objects up ahead and maintains a safe distance. Watch our video to see the self-driving chairs in action.
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- 3D-printed objects that are both soft and hard
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Imagine mechanical objects like door handles or pliers made entirely out of rubber-like material. Researchers at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute have already done that through new technology called metamaterial mechanism. They used modeling software to 3D-print objects that are composed of a combination of hard and soft cells. These cells are either spaced tightly or more loosely, which allows for the firm structure while giving the object flexibility.
Watch our video to see how metamaterial mechanism works in door handles and pliers.
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- Testing the DJI Phantom 4 drone
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- 10 years ago
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- DJI's Phantom 4 is supposed to be the smartest consumer drone on the market. So we tested by doing the stupidest thing you could do with a drone.
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- No surprise, there's a huge gender gap on the big screen
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- There's new software that proves what we've been thinking all along: female actresses don't get as much time on the big screen as their male counterparts. The tool is called the Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (GD-IQ), named after the actress famous for Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own.
Watch our video to find out what researchers learned after running the 100 top-grossing films from 2015 through the software.
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- Hillary Clinton has a secret debating superpower
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Hillary's debating superpower has nothing to do with her actual debating skills. It's the effect she has on her opponents.
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- The inventor of the origami microscope
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Foldscope is an origami microscope made with a single sheet of paper that's embedded with electronics and lenses. It costs less than $1 to build. Manu Prakash is the inventor of this low-cost scientific tool. He wants microscopes to be as ubiquitous as pencils and plans on shipping one million Foldscopes by the end of 2017.
It's his work in, what he calls, "frugal science" that won him the MacArthur Genius Grant. Over the next five years, he will receive $625,000 to continue inventing low-cost scientific tools that can be available to anyone. Watch our video to see what other inventions the physical biologist has created using simple tools.
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- What is the definition of microaggression?
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- 10 years ago
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- "Microaggression" is the buzzword of the new school year, but why exactly is it so harmful? Watch our explainer on microaggressions through Hollywood movies.
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- Huawei smartphone live-streams from space
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Chinese telecom company attempted a world record for the highest altitude live-stream from a smart phone.
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- This is what it's like to ride in one Uber's first self-driving cars
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Self-driving Ubers have started picking up passengers in Pittsburgh. Soon, they could spread to the rest of the world.
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- The complete guide to getting cheap flights
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Here are some basic tips and tricks to save money on your next vacation, courtesy of one of Quartz's data journalists.
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- This “hair tattoo” is one cure for baldness
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- For those who suffer from hair loss and don’t want to splurge on a hair transplant surgery, there is another solution: scalp micropigmentation.
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- Meet Hollywood's rattlesnake wrangler
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- 10 years ago
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- Bo Slyapich catches rattlesnakes for some of Hollywood's biggest names: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Heidi Klum, Jamie Foxx, Khloe Kardashian...and many others. He also works on movie and television sets, clearing rattlesnakes before filming takes place.
Produced by Erik Olsen
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- How to drink with the Chinese
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Alcohol can lubricate dealmaking and consensus-building around the world, but it’s particularly powerful in China. Eighty-two percent of young Chinese say drinking is essential for career development.
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- Micrograph photos reveal the unique beauty of tears
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Under microscope, each tear is different—and beautiful in its own right.
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- The "Science" of a Perfect Soup Dumpling
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Your ultimate guide to find the perfect soup dumpling in New York City, compiled by a Shanghai native.
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- What happens to Olympic stadiums after the games?
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- 10 years ago
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- Every Olympic host country faces a question after the Olympics end: What should happen with the stadiums and sports venues it built? Some countries have come up with creative uses for the venues, but many of those facilities end up abandoned.
Here's a look at the "afterlives" of some of the athletic venues built for some recent Olympic games.
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- The "millennial whoop" is taking over pop music
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The same exact whooping, melodic sequence has been showing up in a surprisingly high number of recent pop songs. This musical phrase is everywhere. How long will it last?
The same annoying whooping sound is showing up in every popular song, “The Millennial Whoop”.
From Katy Perry to Frank Ocean to Beethoven — music theory shows this sound repetition hooks millennial and many other listeners.
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- Octopod: The first completely soft, autonomous robot
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The octobot is an untethered, autonomous robot made completely from soft materials. Researchers at Harvard University designed it to move without wires or batteries.
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- He built an airplane and cut his commute by seven minutes
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- A man in the Czech Republic spent two years building his own airplane just to cut seven minutes from his commute.
Frantisek Hadrava's DIY personal aircraft project took two years and $4000 dollars. The plane has one propeller and one seat and an open cockpit. The flying aeroplane was modeled after the American mini-Max.
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- The magic of 3D projection mapping
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Projection mapping is a new art form that transforms everyday objects into an animated canvas. Paintscaping is a Los Angeles-based company that has perfected the craft.
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- Where Hollywood goes to make its fake planes look real
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- 10 years ago
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- A visit to Air Hollywood, the world’s largest aviation-themed entertainment studio.
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- The dying art of practical effects
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- These master artists specialize in a craft that’s being threatened by the digital takeover of Hollywood.
Produced by Erik Olsen
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- These electric race cars look just like Formula 1, but are eerily quiet
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Car-crazed Californians caught a glimpse of what the future of car racing might look—and sound—like at the second annual Formula E series in Long Beach on April 2, the only U.S. stop on the Formula E tour this year.
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- Sign spinning as a competitive, extreme sport
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- 10 years ago
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- Sign spinning has become an extreme sport. In this video, spinners show off their moves and talk about how the sport offered them not just steady income, but also a growing tribe of devotees. They’ve flung sign spinning out of the realm of thankless grunt work and into a vocation.
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- Making the ‘Yellowstone of the Atlantic Ocean’ an underwater national monument
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts is an underwater ecological hotspot about 150 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. A group of scientists and conservationists want President Obama to declare it a National Marine Monument when he leaves office.
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- To get their drone license, some pilots learn to fly a balloon first
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Welcome to the weird world of the FAA's commercial drone regulations. Since the advent of the consumer drone market, it has been illegal to fly a drone for commercial purposes without a pilot’s certificate. So many people are taking lessons with the intent of meeting FAA requirements, then applying to fly a drone.
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- Meet the Skytypers
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- 10 years ago
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- Greg Stinis learned how to pilot a plane before he learned how to drive a car. Not surprising for the son of a man who invented a new way to write sentences in the sky, whose plane hangs in a national museum.
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- Great white sharks are coming back in California—and that’s a good thing
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Chris Lowe runs the Shark Lab at California State University in Long Beach. He says that white sharks are recovering in California, and while attacks are likely to increase, there is nothing to worry about since they will remain incredibly rare.
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- Scientists have found a way to make paraplegics move again
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The breakthrough method involves virtual reality, but the effects are hardly virtual. Read more: http://qz.com/757516/paraplegics-are-learning-to-walk-again-with-virtual-reality/
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- How do Olympians keep improving?
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- It isn't us who have evolved. It's sports.
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- What countries pay for Olympic gold medals
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- 10 years ago
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- Check out the video above to see what countries are promising the biggest payouts (among other incentives) for gold medals won in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.
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- This shark is world's longest-living species of vertebrate
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- New research shows the Greenland shark lives hundreds of years longer than any other vertebrate species we've seen before.
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- Simone Biles gravity-defying physics
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Is Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles really unbeatable? We break down the physics behind her signature move.
Less than halfway through her first Olympics, Simone Biles is already a legend USA gymnast. She is not merely better than any other in female gymnastics right now. She is quite possibly the best female gymnast ever—dominating on the beam, floor and vault. Watch Simone Biles on video and see she does more complicated tricks and has nearly flawless execution, and she already has a move named after her.
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