Year: 2017
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Lilly King after Rio Olympics: stressed by fame, bored by swimming, getting bad grades
Lilly King was called into a meeting to discuss poor grades. Turns out those grades were symptomatic of a larger issue. Lilly King, the indomitable swim heroine of the Rio Olympics, was having trouble with the aftermath. School was hard. Celebrity was annoying. Racing was dull. Practice was drudgery. “She started talking, and it all…
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FrogLog: Animal Escape Ramp for Swimming Pools
Having a swimming pool is a super fun way to stay cool during the summer. For the small animals living in your backyard, however, it can be a death trap. Wildlife biologist Rich Mason is out to change that with his simple, yet ingenious invention – the FrogLog. “In June of 2004, good friends who…
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Move over, blood doping; cyclists might be “poop doping†soon
To be a professional cyclist, one must have guts, microbiologist Lauren Peterson says, and she doesn’t just mean that in the metaphorical sense. Peterson, herself a pro endurance mountain biker, has discovered that the most elite athletes in the sport have a certain microbiome living in their intestines that allow them to perform better, and…
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Two Elephants Quickly Spring Into Action to Rescue a Baby Elephant From Drowning
When a tiny baby elephant unexpectedly fell into the water during a poolside stroll at the Seoul Grand Park Zoo, the calf’s frantic adult walking companion and another nearby elephant sprung into quick collaborative action to rescue the little pachyderm from drowning. The two grown elephants entered confidently into the water and quickly walked the little one…
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60 Days Down The Danube With Avram Iancu
On his fourth attempt, Romanian endurance athlete Avram Iancu completed a 17 hour 54 minute crossing of the English Channel. Iancu will need that same depth of commitment and passion for open water swimming as he just set off on a 60-day stage swim of 2,860 km in the Danube River yesterday. The 41-year-old librarian…
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Watch: Owl ‘Swims’ for Its Life in Rare Video | National Geographic
See rare video of a swimming great horned owl. Hikers walking through a canyon in Lake Powell between Arizona and Utah stumbled upon the rare sight. It’s likely a young great horned owl and still has some of its nestling feathers. Great horned owls often roost on cliff ledges, so it’s possible the young owl…
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Aussies celebrate Antarctic midwinter with an icy dip
Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, in the southern hemisphere. And in Antarctica, 15 Australian expeditioners at Davis station are celebrating with an icy dip in freezing waters, a now traditional midwinter swim. The air temperature is hovering at -33.5°C and the water temperature about -1.8°C. See Business Insider
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Chicago swim lessons aim to increase water safety
Water safety is an important issue this time of year, and a recent study claims only 54 percent of Americans know how to swim. On the Great Lakes alone 30 people have died so far in 2017, and more than half of those deaths took place on Lake Michigan. Different community centers and city parks…
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Giant Squid Latches Onto Paddle Surfer’s Board
James Taylor was trying to be a good citizen of the Earth and help out an injured squid, but the squid just seemed interested in his board. Spotted an injured giant squid just behind the waves in Melkboss a while back and decided to try and get it to the beach. With @cristinafva and @wahinemich…