{"id":257848,"date":"2023-07-17T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=257848"},"modified":"2024-01-04T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T17:00:41","slug":"the-fourth-generation-of-the-flying-wallendas-just-cant-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/07\/17\/the-fourth-generation-of-the-flying-wallendas-just-cant-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"The fourth generation of the Flying Wallendas just can’t stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Marcus Webb for Delayed Gratification magazine: “I remember every moment of my fall,\u201d says Lijana Wallenda, one of the fourth generation of the Wallenda family to perform on a high wire \u2013 and, in 2017, the latest member to suffer a horrific accident. \u201cI can see the ground getting closer, closer, closer to my face before I hit it. All I could think about was my sons, nephew and niece\u2026 I\u2019m not letting them do high-wire walking<\/a> for a living. No, the generations of wire-walking end here.\u201d The Wallendas\u2019 long line of aerialists started with Karl. Born in Germany in 1905, he began learning stunts as a young child, and was performing by the age of six. In 1922 he formed the Flying Wallendas high-wire act with his brother Herman, schoolfriend Joseph Geiger and Helen Kreis, who would become his wife. The Flying Wallendas spent several years touring Europe before moving to Sarasota, Florida, in 1928 to join the famous Ringling Bros circus.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kind of person can run in a tiny, maddening circle for 24 hours straight?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Stephen Lurie for Slate: “Gagz had been running for 17 hours and 20 minutes when he made it to the southeast corner of the loop. He\u2019d already chugged past this spot 370 times, but on his 371st\u00a0<\/sup>lap, he started walking across the lanes. \u201cI\u2019m takin\u2019 five,\u201d he told me. \u201cI have to. I just don\u2019t want my lead to dwindle.\u201d He reached the edge and laid down, propping his\u00a0tattooed legs up against a waist-high chain-link fence<\/a>, long gray beard falling toward the damp red track. He planned to sleep for exactly five minutes. It was midnight for civilians, but at Dawn to Dusk to Dawn\u2014a grueling 24-hour ultramarathon in Sharon Hills, Pennsylvania\u2014hour 17 meant more to the runners. Gagz, 47, wasn\u2019t the only one who\u2019d started to creak. Harvey, the race leader who had already run more than four back-to-back marathons that day (107.87 miles), needed to change his shoes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The female wrestlers who managed to pin India\u2019s prime minister<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Nitish Pahwa for Slate: “Female wrestlers spoke out for more than six months, demanding that someone, anyone in India\u2019s state institutions\u2014law enforcement, courts, local and national authorities\u2014take seriously their allegations of sexual misconduct against one of the country\u2019s most powerful sportsmen: Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, president of the Wrestling Federation of India and an elected member of Parliament for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Throughout the year, the protesters gathered<\/a> in New Delhi, occupying buildings and holding marches with allies to demand that Indian authorities properly investigate Singh, strip him of his power, and make Indian wrestling a safer environment for its women. Finally, in June, police released a 1,500-page report on former wrestling chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, formally charging him with the jailable offenses of sexually harassing, stalking, and assaulting women.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y<\/strong>ou reach a point where you can\u2019t live your life: what is behind extreme hoarding?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Samira Shackle for The Guardian: “At a recent hoarding panel meeting in east London, Daniel Pearson, commander for Shadwell and Whitechapel fire stations, played attenders a recording of a 999 call in which a panicked resident reported a fire at their home. A team of firefighters was dispatched immediately, but couldn\u2019t access the property. Pearson displayed photographs from the scene, taken after the event<\/a>: the doorways and corridors were blocked by heaps of possessions, now charred and unrecognisable. The person who made the call died. Pearson told me they see this kind of case regularly. Last year, the London fire brigade attended 1,036 hoarding-related fires which led to 186 injuries and 10 deaths. It now logs the properties of identified hoarders on a database, so fire stations know to send out extra firefighters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mystery of crime-scene dust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Livia Gershon for JSTOR Daily: “Until the late nineteenth century, there really wasn\u2019t any such thing as systematic investigation of a crime scene. In an 1844 guide to forensic medicine, William Guy of King\u2019s College suggested that doctors arriving at the scene of a death to examine the body should also pay attention to the environment surrounding it, but he left the question of how to do this up to the<\/a> \u201cjudgment and foresight\u201d of the individual physician. The first practical guide to investigating a crime scene was written by Austrian jurist Hans Gross in 1893 and translated into English in 1906. Gross offered instructions to an \u201cinvestigating officer,\u201d who would lead the effort. To start with, he wrote, secure the perimeter and protect the scene from contamination (including by the officer himself, who would have to fight off the \u201cnatural impulse\u201d to \u201cimmediately touch any object of apparent significance\u201d).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How cuttlefish camouflage themselves is more complicated than it seems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Jennifer Oullette for Slate: “It’s well known that cuttlefish and several other cephalopods can rapidly shift the colors in their skin thanks to that skin’s unique structure. But according to a new paper published in the journal Nature, the process by which cuttlefish generate those camouflage patterns is significantly more complex than scientists previously thought. \u201cPrior research suggested that cuttlefish only had a limited selection of pattern components that they would use to achieve the best match<\/a> against the environment,” said co-author Sam Reiter of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). “But our latest research has shown that their camouflaging response is much more complicated and flexible\u2014we just hadn\u2019t been able to detect it, as previous approaches were not as detailed or quantitative.\u201d Their quantitative approach combined high-resolution video with machine learning to investigate not just camouflage patterns but the related process of “blanching” in response to threats.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wholesome, but also dystopian, note on a telephone pole<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From Twitter user @blasty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Marcus Webb for Delayed Gratification magazine: “I remember every moment of my fall,\u201d says Lijana Wallenda, one of the fourth generation of the Wallenda family to perform on a high wire \u2013 and, in 2017, the latest member to suffer a horrific accident. \u201cI can see the ground getting closer, closer, closer to my … <\/p>\n

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