Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish

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Want to Run a World-Record Time? Follow the Green Lights. Wavelights are a pacemaking technology that are helping runners achieve faster times. But is it cheating? (This is like racing Mario Kart ghosts!)

A list of 30 roadtrips you can take this summer on all seven continents: safaris in Uganda, travelling the east coast of Taiwan, an epic Patagonia trip, coast-to-coast US roadtrip, driving Adelaide to Melbourne, etc.

I was Russell Crowe's stooge. From 2006, a great read by a journalist who was recruited as a shill and then discarded by Russell Crowe. "I had been quite the sucker. It was the only truth that made sense." (via jodiettenberg.substack.com)

Air quality has become a huge issue recently: Covid, wildfires, gas stoves, longer allergy season. "If the pandemic was whispering to us about air quality, the wildfires are screaming to us about it." (via erictopol.substack.com)

Now this is how you do special effects. Absolutely seamless.

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