This dog raced across the backs of 56 people to set a world record
The Australian shepherd, Chardonnay, jumped around with excitement after her feat. Source link
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Miami to Decide Fate of Stunning Stadium Where Speedboats Raced and Jimmy Buffett Played
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marine Stadium, considered a masterpiece of midcentury Brutalist architecture with its massive cantilevered roof and a stunning view of the city, opened in 1963 as the nation’s only race venue for powerboats, a major symbol of South Florida. The historic gem designed by a Cuban refugee was the backdrop of Elvis Presley’s 1967 film “Clambake” and a beloved venue of Gloria Estefan and the late Jimmy Buffett, who performed on a movable, floating stage. But since closing in 1992 after suffering serious damage during Hurricane Andrew, the 6,500-seat venue has fallen into disarray and today is fenced off and covered in graffiti despite being listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to allow the city to partner with a private company to return the unique stadium situated on Virginia Key across the water from downtown Miami to its former glory. President Richard Nixon and Sammy Davis Jr. appeared together at the stadium during a 1972 campaign rally to support Nixon’s reelection bid. …
This Canadian team has raced solar cars since 1992, and they’re bringing their best yet to the 2026 Electrek American Solar Challenge
This July, the 2026 Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and American Solar Challenge (ASC) head north to Minnesota. Meanwhile, I caught up with one of the teams making the trip, and they’ve been racing solar cars longer than almost anyone. Éclipse, out of École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal, has been building them for over 33 years, since 1992. Hence the big 92 you’ll spot on the car. The team’s captain, Yohann Gourmelen, sat down with me to talk about their new car (Éclipse 12), some rule changes shaking up this year’s race, and how they build nearly an entire solar car in-house. A team that builds almost everything in-house ÉTS is a renowned engineering-only college, and it is one of Éclipse’s biggest strengths. The team works out of what Yohann says is one of the most advanced student club workshops at any university in North America. “We get visits from universities all over the world every week trying to see how it’s done here,” he told me. They build almost everything themselves. …
Exclusive: Camila Morrone Raced from the Age of Innocence Set to Channel Grace Kelly at the Met Gala 2026
Camila Morrone spent 24 hours in Prague last week, then another 48 in New York, before a day in Los Angeles over the weekend, from where she called in to talk about her 2026 Met Gala look. “It’s been the busiest pre-Met,” she says, “I wouldn’t say it’s been necessarily relaxing, but I like adrenaline and moving fast, so I’m happy.” Morrone has been on a roll since starring in Daisy Jones and the Six in 2023. She spent the last year and half on TV sets, she tells me, filming for The Night Manager, Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, both of which are out on Amazon and Netflix, respectively, and the much-anticipated The Age of Innocence, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age-set novel from 1920. “I’m feeling really excited,” Morrone says of returning to the Costume Institute Benefit after two years. “I’ve been filming outside of the country, so it’s been a lot time since I’ve done a big carpet where I run into a lot of my friends, so it’s …
We Strapped on Exoskeletons and Raced. There’s One Clear Winner
Personal exoskeletons were everywhere at CES 2026. There were ambitious designs from newcomers WiRobotics, Sumbu, Ascentiz, and Dephy, while Skip Mo/Go was back promoting its long-overdue tech trousers. Dnsys (pronounced Deen-sis), a comparatively well established name, had some new launches to tease, Hypershell was back with its top model, and Ascentiz had us sprinting across the show floor. An exoskeleton is a relatively new class of wearable device designed to enhance, support, or assist human movement, strength, posture, or even physical activity. The main piece goes around your waist like a belt, and from it, a pair of hinged, mechanized splints extend down over the hips to strap onto each thigh, where they provide some robotic assistance to normal movements like walking, running, or squatting. Once only used in medical rehabilitation and in factory settings, exoskeletons are now being sold as mainstream consumer devices. It’s a rapidly emerging market, too, with reports suggesting growth from more than half a billion dollars in 2025 to more than $2 billion by 2030. Climb every mountain. Courtesy of …
Two blazing stars once raced past the Sun and reshaped our solar system
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close by. Nearly 4.4 million years ago, they swept past at a distance of only about 30 to 35 light-years, close in cosmic terms, and quietly stamped their signatures into the gas and dust that surround the Sun today. That is the picture emerging from new work led by Michael Shull, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder. The study pieces together how those wandering stars helped shape the “neighborhood” your planet lives in now. A Cloudy Shell Around the Solar System Your solar system does not drift through empty space. It sits inside a set of wispy structures known as the local interstellar clouds. These clouds are mostly hydrogen and helium gas with tiny traces of dust. Together, they stretch roughly 30 light-years from end to end, or about 175 trillion miles. The location of β CMa on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram is shown for our derived parameters. (CREDIT: The Astrophysical Journal) Beyond those …