Do you want to get fit, but worry about being vulnerable to close-quarters melee attack during your exercises? Then sword yoga is for you! The New York Post reports that performing yoga routines while holding swords is becoming a popular activity in some studios in The City. It's a synthesis of vinyasa yoga, tai chi, and kung fu.

Sabrina Stoberg founded WeaponUp, a sword yoga fitness firm. Her background in Shaolin kung fu provided her with a foundation for this vigorous yoga practice that demands strength, balance, and flexibility. It also encourages women who participate to feel strong and develop what Stoberg calls "main character energy."

-via Jarvis Best | Photo: Sabrina Stoberg

In 1892, Arthur Hotchkiss patented what he called the "elevated railway." Hotchkiss and other innovators imaged rail travel for individuals by pedal-powered machines that rolled over specially-built rail networks.

My Modern Met introduces us to Amanda Meyer, an art student in Madrid who works with fashion, fabrics, paint, and tattoos. She spent 40 hours and 100 meters of thread to compose this mini dress that is literally made of leaves. The preservation process leaves the leaves looking like leather and somewhat sturdier than untreated leaves. Although the dress is delicate, it is wearable.

"Datalore" is the thirteen the episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this episode, we learn more about Data's origins and are introduced to his brother (of sorts)--the villainous Lore who lacked his successor's moral character.

Dallas-based artist artist Heather Lynn creates in a variety of media, often drawing inspiration from the Symbolist and Art Nouveau movements, as well as images from high fantasy.

In this tattoo, she shows Data and Lore as they appeared in one particular moment of the episode, attending to the details of Lore's gesture and Data's first season uniform. Lynn's organization of the image is drawn from Art Nouveau playing cards.

The Kunlun Mountains form the northern boundary of Tibet. If you stand on summit of them and look northwest, you should be able to see Pik Dankova, the tallest mountain in the Tian Shan range of Kyrgyzstan 329 miles away--provided that the weather is clear.

This is the farthest line of sight on the planet Earth.

Google Maps Mania directs our attention to All the Views, a fascinating interactive tool that allows you to calculate the farthest line of sight from any location on Earth.

It's an interactive tool that is fun to explore. I learned that the farthest line of sight in Texas is Guadalupe Peak which has a line of sight of 140 miles to the southeast.

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Marisa Whittamore, a stained glass artist, and Amanda Rosenblatt, a photographer, collaborated to create this extraordinary work of stained glass. This mind-bending work emerges from two dimensional space into the viewer. It's on display at the THAW Group exhibition in Jacksonville, Florida.

Janus Cycle faced the challenge of powering a modern device with humanity's earliest artificial energy source: fire.

The key components are a pair of Peltier modules. These devices convert heat into electricity. Janus Cycle placed these modules over an open flame in a cardboard box to concentrate the heat. He used thermal compound to conduct the energy and route the electricity to the Game Boy.

Obstacles included the fragility of the Peltier modules, which can endure a maximum heat of 250°F, while generating enough electricity (about 4 volts) to power up the Game Boy. The project was successful and Janus Cycle played Castlevania.

-via Hack A Day

A mere ditch separates the American and Canadian border between South Surrey, British Columbia and Blaine, Washington. On a daily basis, the Canadian cat Louis Vuitton flaunts US sovereignty by crossing that border whenever he wishes.

CBC News reports that there are security cameras and guards, but Louis Vuitton ignores them (and the Oregon Treaty of 1846) and strolls around the territory of the United States of America to receive tribute in the form of pats and belly rubs. He occasionally hunts squirrels, mice, and snakes to bring back across the border to Canada to offer to his humans.

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Creating a LinkedIn profile is essential for the job hunting process in many professions. I gather that so is despairing over the content posted therein. LinkedIn is notorious for being popular with business influencers who share ficticious or wildly inaccurate stories about their working lives or how they apply incidents in their personal lives for the workplace. There's a subreddit called LinkedIn Lunatics for the worst offenders.

The search engine Kagi created an AI tool that takes the work out of creating nonsense for your LinkedIn followers. It automatically generates LinkedIn gibberish based upon prompts from your daily life experiences.

-via kanav

Once, as a child, I visited the Louvre in Paris. There was a crowd around the Mona Lisa--a surprisingly small painting--but not around other works.

It's the most famous painting in the Louvre, so it attracts a lot of attention. Writer David Friedman wondered: what do other museums regard at their most famous items on display? He found 17 museums that officials had specifically identified works of art as their own Mona Lisa.

In the case of the middle work above, it's a silkscreen by Andy Warhol of Marilyn Monroe in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Friedman also includes museums of history and paleontology.

In the frozen northern lands comprising Canada, automotive brake parts are the natural prey of the North American Porcupine. Visitors in Valhalla Provincial Park in British Columbia have taken to protecting their vehicles by wrapping the bottoms of the cars with improvised fences made of chicken wire. Sometimes wooden stakes separating the wire from the vehicles provide an additional barrier to keep the hungry porcupines at bay.

Why do porcupines like to eat brake parts? I'm not sure. I've never tasted them before. But I'm inclined toward culinary adventures, so it's time to give them a chance.

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Much of early television history is lost to us because it was aired live and therefore never recorded or recordings were not preserved. Doctor Who, which first aired in 1963, has this challenge as tapes were recorded over after production. About 100 of the 892 episodes are gone.

Occasionally, recordings surface. BBC News reports that two such episodes from 1965 have been found. They feature actor William Hartnell, who served as the first incarnation of the Doctor. The two episodes, titled "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet," will air on Easter. They are part of the Daleks' Master Plan story arc, of which only half survives.

-via Gizmodo

Brad Barber is a master LEGO artist who creatively takes LEGO kits and makes them into completely different designs. For example, a gingerbread Star Wars AT-AT becomes the USS Enterprise from Star Trek.

Jo Cope is a conceptual artist in the UK who has become famous for her red shoes. These shoes are more sculptures than examples of functional footwear. They offer social commentary about conflict or cooperation within societies.

An essential part of the process of turning cream into butter is continous, vigorous motion. That's similar to the up and down motion of long distance running. Runner's World reports that some runners are multitasking effectively by strapping on packs of milk.

In a demonstration video, runner Libby Cope and her boyfriend ran five and a half miles with a mixture of cream and sea salt. After removing the excess water at the end, she had usable and tasty butter.