Today's xkcd is awesome:
Up Goer Five. A blueprint of a rocket ship, explained using only the thousand most common words in the English language. ('Computer' is one of them while 'thousand' isn't. Huh.)
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Interview with Tomoko Ogawa, first woman to boulder 8B+. At the bottom of the article there's a video clip of her climb. Hardcore! At some point it looks like she's hanging from the cave ceiling by just pinching a tiny bit of rock between her fingers.
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