July 1, 2021

A New Age Opens For College Athletes

July 1st, 2021 marks a sea change in college athletics, as the NCAA functionally removes their regulations on the exploitation of name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights, allowing players to finally make money on their own image without risking their eligibility. [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 3:05 PM PST - 9 comments

I'm going to go over the engineering concept you need to make this work

A month ago (previously), Youtuber Veritasium sailed Blackbird (previouslier) directly downwind faster than the wind. Afterwards, a physics professor bet him $10,000 that it didn't happen. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye weighed in. Veritasium asked Xyla Foxlin to design and build a working model to win the bet. Foxlin (who surprisingly never seems to have been featured on Metafilter) has also built a cedar-strip canoe, built some flame throwing greeting cards, and sent her Miss America crown to the edge of space.
posted by clawsoon at 2:42 PM PST - 150 comments

Inside Exxon's playbook

"We were looking out for our investments. We were looking out for our shareholders." In May, Exxon senior lobbyist Keith McCoy explained to an undercover reporter why the company lied about climate science and sought to kill climate policy for the last 40 years. Yesterday, on June 30, 2021, journalist Lawrence Carter at Greenpeace's investigative arm, Unearthed, published Inside Exxon's playbook, the first of several reports to come. Today, Emily Atkin covers how the sausage got made in her excellent newsletter, Heated. The story has been covered in various outlets, including The Guardian.
posted by Bella Donna at 7:57 AM PST - 60 comments

A stick, a stone / It's the end of the road

Elis Regina & Tom Jobim – “Águas de Março” (1974) [more inside]
posted by oulipian at 7:33 AM PST - 28 comments

Take the Broken Pieces of Another Thrill and Make a Brand New Toy

Elvis Costello Gives Courtney Love a Lesson in How to Deal With Plagiarism Allegations [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 7:02 AM PST - 52 comments

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