Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #91
Tony's Pick
Beau Miles has a great YouTube channel. He's a rough-and-tumble Aussie who's always running, usually attempting profundity and often (nearly) achieving it. More A filmmaker-who-releases-things-on-YouTube than a YouTuber. Worth your attention! Start with Running a marathon, one mile every hour or Bad River or One last run for the best hat ever made or Walking 90km to work.
Kyle's Pick
This week I learned about Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway. It has some interesting historical architecture, but is best known for the sculptures of Gustav Vigeland. Here's a blog post featuring some of the works as well as some context and analysis.
This was the sculpture I saw that got me to dig deeper, which helps establish a minimum bar for the question "How many babies could a man defeat in a fight at one time?" with "four."
(Ed: apparently these are "genii," or evil spirits, and not human babies, but he is winning either way.)
