Thu. 04/22 - The Sport of Extreme Sitting
Introducing the sport of extreme sitting. Plus, a new study that suggests fungi might be communicating with each other via electrical impulses. And, Sir David Attenborough has been named Champion of the Earth. Sponsors: Shopify, Get a 14-day free...
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Introducing the sport of extreme sitting. Plus, a new study that suggests fungi might be communicating with each other via electrical impulses. And, Sir David Attenborough has been named Champion of the Earth.
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Links:
- Tue. 01/25 - Extreme Ironing: Can You Take The Heat? (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
- Meet the Man Who Wants to Make Sitting an Extreme Sport (Atlas Obscura)
- About Desert Sitting (Desert Sitting)
- How to explain a day 'desert sitting': Social distancing as endurance sport (Travel Weekly)
- Desert Sitting documentary (Desert Sitting)
- Fungi May Be Communicating in a Way That Looks Uncannily Like Human Speech (ScienceAlert)
- Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 'words', scientist claims (The Guardian)
- The Fungus Among Us May Have Their Own Mushroom Language (Nerdist)
- Sir David Attenborough named Champion of the Earth by UN (BBC)
- Dinosaurs: The Final Day With David Attenborough review – a thrilling slice of time-travelling detective work (The Guardian)
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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