Thinking about how Sam Bird finally explained how he gets so airborne when he jumps on the podium and other than weeeee-adrenaline, it’s apparently bending his knees when he’s in the air and a good camera angle giving the illusion of height.
(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)