Mon. 02/14 - Rejected Olympic Sports

Speed skiing, synchronized skating, ski ballet, and other rejected sports from the Olympics. Plus, remember that SpaceX rocket stage headed for the moon? Turns out it’s a different piece of rocket junk, not from SpaceX at all. And the tropical disease that may be on the verge of eradication in humans.

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Links:

• Speed skiing: too fast for the Olympics (Financial Times) 
• 12 Sports That Used To Be In The Winter Olympics (BuzzFeed)
• When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport (NY Times)
• The Most Insane Ex-Olympic Sport! SPEED SKIING! ⛷ (Olympics, YouTube) 
• HOW was this an Olympic sport? Ski ballet! (Olympics, YouTube)
• Plot Twist: A Different Rogue Rocket Is Going to Hit the Moon (Gizmodo)
• A rocket is still set to slam into the Moon next month — but it may not be from SpaceX after all (The Verge)
• Astronomers now say the rocket about to strike the Moon is not a Falcon 9 (Ars Technica)
• 1/26/22 episode about the SpaceX rocket stage (Kottke Ride Home)
• Just 14 cases: Guinea worm disease nears eradication (Nature)
• AirAsia flight diverted due to unexpected snake on the plane (NPR)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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