Thu. 04/22 - The Sport of Extreme Sitting

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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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