The Shirts vs The Blouses: the OG bout
Sport
VFX artist Wren Weichman aka SirWrender put a special camera inside a clear bowling ball and threw it down an alley to show its journey from throw to pins and back into the ball return.
Chess as a tool for social transformation in Jamaica
From kings and queens to Queensbury in Kingston (tenuous chess link there)
TIL: there are London Irish, London Scottish, and London Welsh rugby teams (although I also found out that the original London Welsh had to fold but the name lives on via an amateur team). Oh, and London Cornish, London French, and London New Zealand! London South Africa were also a club but dissolved in 2014.
For Colossal, Grace Ebert covered Keerthana Kunnath’s photo series about a community of female bodybuilders in Kerala, titled “Not What You Saw”: Set against common backdrops like beaches, the outside of a traditional Indian home, and lush, green foliage, the collection highlights an alternative vision of beauty grounded in immense female power.
Madison Keys is the 2025 Australian Open Women’s Singles champion
Keys open doors, as my old head of year used to say.
Olympics / Soccer / Sport / Summer Olympics / Wrestling
The top 10 posts of 2024
What were the most viewed articles of 4
For JSTOR Daily, Livia Gershon looked back at “The Rumble in the Jungle”, the World Heavyweight Championship match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali held in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo): The 1974 Rumble in the Jungle was freighted with symbolism regarding American racial politics and the pan-African struggle in the context of the Cold War.
JSTOR Daily on sports and how it changed glaciology
Who knew the Alps would contribute so much to sports in the UK (theoretically)?
Incredible pool clearance by 9 year old Teddy White in a game of English 8-ball pool. The kids are alright (at cue sports).