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My 7 favorite Yogi-isms (aka Yogi Berra quotes)

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Image credit: Yogi Berra Museum

Living (and loving) Life

As a youngster, I really loved the game of baseball.

I could rattle off all manner of obscure stats about the leading Major League players, and I could name all the players on my favorite teams, right down to the rarely-seen bench warmers.

In fact, I could even name even quite a few of the hopefuls that were working their way up through the Minors.

Of course like all baseball fans I had my favorite players, and one of my favorites of all time was Yankee great Yogi Berra.  [Read more…]

Video: Check out more of Scottish daredevil Danny MacAskill’s amazing bike skills

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Regular readers of this blog will remember watching in amazement as Scottish daredevil Danny MacAskill rode the famous rooftops of Gran Canaria and then went Ever Higher.

Danny’s combination of incredible skill and rock-solid nerves are on full display in every video he makes.

He has a knack for just putting on a fantastic show while seemingly defying the laws of gravity and physics.  [Read more…]

Video: Precision flying (and nerves of steel)

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Have you ever looked at a massive structure and simply marveled at the hard work and steely nerves that must have been required to build it.

San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge is one such structure.

However, the short video I’m featuring today isn’t about the construction of the bridge itself.  [Read more…]

Video: The ten greatest inventions of Nikola Tesla

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The brilliant mind of Nikola Tesla created hundreds of successful inventions, several of which would end up literally changing the world.

Although he was awarded 300 patents for his inventions, many of his ideas were decades ahead of their time so they never really panned out in the commercial sense.

However, several of the ones that did pan out are still in widespread use today, eight decades years after his passing.  [Read more…]