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Human Echolocation, Extreme Pogo Sticking, Elephants Evading Poachers

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Future of Pogo Sticks

A new generation of pogo sticks aim to break open the sport by re imagining how these things work. The vortego gets it doesn't use steel coiled springs. Its inventor, a guy named bruce spencer, explained his concept to the smithsonian. He realized that if he used the entire length of a pogo stick to squeeze that air, he could launch a full-sized human dangerously high.

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