Kix details his exploits and many death-defying escapes during the war.
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What interests you about this archetype of the death-defying interplanetary MacGyver?
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That's a lesson she learned one death-defying night a few months ago.
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A death-defying 50-minute round-trip, all for a bag of coffee.
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I can live with that, although I do love those death-defying tricks.
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Pico, "restless / searching for a nourishing territory," is both death-defying and morbid.
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Once a death-defying feat, our journey into the underworld now required only $21.95.
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THE ELECTRIC WOMAN A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts By Tessa Fontaine 366 pp.
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But, also, it talks of death-defying romance—and how can anyone resist that?
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You already have done a ton of crazy death defying s— in your life lol.
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Except, it's not college these kids are preparing for, but death-defying battles and assassinations.
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Now, the 20-year-old adventure-seeker has yet another death-defying story to tell.
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It wants to be a rousing, entertaining superhero series, with great fights and death-defying feats.
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Death-defying escapes, encounters with local wildlife, and yes, those wonderful views after an arduous climb.
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The artist's falls, though not exactly "death defying," presumably involved a certain degree of personal risk.
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Click through to see which pint (or pints) you'd want to make a death-defying comeback.
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Eustace, 103, spent 13 years working at Google before this death-defying leap from the stratosphere.
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The final entry pulls off a death-defying feat no full-length novel would sanely attempt.
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The man with an internet-famous collection of incredible death-defying jump videos has been arrested.
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The dream of wealth was made all the more romantic by tales of death-defying adventure.
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But let's be clear, he said: His job is the least death-defying of the bunch.
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Though rare, acrobatic performers have made headlines for their death-defying stunts gone awry in the past.
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Tom Cruise is giving a behind-the-scenes look at his latest death defying Mission: Impossible stunt.
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For his second post, Cruise showed off some of the death-defying stunts from the upcoming film.
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At the top, visitors will step out onto the glass-floored "viewing capsule" for death-defying views.
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These robots are capable of performing death-defying stunts, and will be deployed at theme park attractions.
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Klara, who learns that she will die at 32, becomes obsessed with death-defying stage magic feats.
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Here, Fonzie takes on Skizzy at Brew Town's version of Thunder Road in a death-defying—THE COPS!
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But then this building, with its sloping floors and death-defying stairs, went up some time around 1770.
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But filming many of those moments required death-defying work from directors who had never made documentaries before.
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Death-defying props aside, the Majorette's supportive sense of sisterhood is easily the most awesome part of its story.
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Extreme obstacle courses and death defying spectacles seem so comforting compared to the semi-reality of this season's politics.
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That hitting is terrifying, even death defying, is perhaps the only thing that fans actually understand better than players.
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Read more: Watch a top F-22 pilot fly 10 death-defying maneuvers in a 2-minute hyperlapse video
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The death-defying climb — and the lead-up to it — is featured in the upcoming National Geographic documentary, Free Solo.
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The combination of death-defying wire acts and gorgeous lighting design by Etienne Boucher made for an awe-inspiring spectacle.
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Paramount Pictures has released its first full trailer for Mission Impossible: Fallout, teasing more death-defying stunts from Tom Cruise.
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The company's software can check for furniture-destroying pets, package-lifting thieves, the death-defying antics of toddlers and more.
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She didn't know it at the time, but she took that death-defying drive across the Iraqi desert with us.
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Nik and Lijana Wallenda's Times Square high-wire walk evoked a rich history of death-defying stunts in New York.
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Fans of America's Got Talent and similar reality TV show competitions are accustomed to witnessing countless death-defying stunts executed flawlessly.
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Not satisfied with letting you simply watch the death-defying feat, Budget Direct has launched a 360-degree video companion ad.
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The CW's Legends of Tomorrow is a superhero show that promises time travel, death-defying exploits, scenery chewing, and then some.
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Every couple minutes, a flood of ice skaters or animals pours across the stage, setting up the next death-defying number.
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Someone who made death-defying drives to the basket, perhaps, a three-point shooter or maybe a power dunker, like Shaq.
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The result is plenty of death-defying excitement, as one wrong move could mean utter disaster for one participant in the chase.
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Almost every major character, good and bad, managed to escape major skirmishes in over-the-top death-defying fashion in season 7.
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While Hawkeye may be able to do death-defying stunts with ease, Renner suffered a little bit while attempting some crazy moves.
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Death-defying wonder woman Betty Bromage just broke the record for the oldest female wing-walker in the UK at age 88.
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The race was briefly stopped about a quarter of the way in after the death-defying crash involving Dixon, the top qualifier.
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But it was that juxtaposition between the quiet drama on the ground and the high-flying, death-defying adventure that enticed Redmayne.
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Mary and Tyce, who call themselves Duo Transcend, performed some death-defying acrobatics while suspended on a bar several feet above the stage.
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We love to watch death defying stunts at a safe distance, but when the fire gets too close, we start to feel uncomfortable.
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie shared a new Instagram photo of Cruise doing yet another death-defying stunt for the upcoming film.
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From creepy cousins' blood-curdling nighttime screams to death-defying surfing excursions, we've all been on trips that took a tragically catastrophic turn.
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Behind the Poster "Death & Harry Houdini" is a biographical show about the famed death-defying magician, featuring live magic and vaudeville-style music.
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Danny Way, the most daring and death defying skateboarder of all time, who fell in love with the DGC, is already plotting 2018.
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Even when you just know that the stone bridge will collapse beneath you, the ensuing death-defying escape will still make your heart pound.
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The one arguably death-defying act is the Wheel of Wonder, in which two brothers maneuver 30 to 40 feet up on twin gyres.
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From running marathons in Kenya to 54-mile bike races and death-defying downhill ski competitions, the adrenaline junkie is always on the move.
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Anyway, Zak believes it's absolutely what's behind Post's string of death-defying incidents -- the emergency landing, the scary car crash and the home invasion.
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Like Fearless Nadia, Ranaut's character dons a domino mask, carries a whip, performs death-defying stunts and fights villains on top of moving trains.
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These legitimate daredevils stand in for actors when a scene calls for a death-defying performance — think car chases, gun fights, and free-falls.
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An avant-garde Berlin director has sold out a 2,000-seat venue that usually draws crowds with death-defying acrobatics or rousing musical numbers.
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The body of the death-defying Claire, who has been the sole survivor of assorted exotic accidents, may consist largely of prosthetic body parts.
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The E3 demo showed off the mix of gameplay that has made past installments so engaging: puzzle solving, action combat, storytelling, and death-defying platforming.
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It's for that reason Ian and Red Bull Media House made a film, 'Distance Between Dreams', about his death-defying experiences in big wave surfing.
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And these are people — young men mostly, but some teenagers and children — who had taken the most arduous, death-defying journey imaginable to get there.
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Pichação is a product of graffiti gangs known as pichadores, whose members make death-defying ascents up high-rises to paint political protestations in black.
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But even these death-defying creatures might be pushed to their limits by human-driven climate change, according to a recent paper in Scientific Reports.
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The circus, with its exotic animals, flashy costumes and death-defying acrobats, has been a staple of entertainment in the United States since the mid-1800s.
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If you were ever too scared to ski a death-defying slope like Matterhorn in the Alps, this video will not make you change your mind.
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The death-defying, nerve-wrecking, parkour skill-flexing childhood game "The Floor is Lava" has gotten an adult makeover from two of its most serious contenders.
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For the French poet and leader of the Surrealist movement André Breton, this mind-boggling, death-defying attitude was almost the purest incarnation of Surrealist theory.
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At 62, Mr. Chan doesn't mount the kind of jaw-dropping, death-defying stunt work that he used to do (nor should he be expected to).
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Amari, a defiant princess, and Zélie, a tenacious diviner warrior, set out on a thrilling, death-defying journey to restore magic and take back the throne.
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She ends up shipwrecked and kidnapped by a bunch of guys with guns, and makes a number of death-defying jumps over chasms and under deadly traps.
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Plus, I was no stranger to death-defying self-promotional stunts, having saved the life of Canadian rap icon Drake about a month and a half ago.
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Shock performance is crucial to driver safety and a truck&aposs ability to perform death-defying tricks, and the suspension technology has evolved dramatically over the years.
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"It's about what we're expected to do and trying to stay safe because we're trying to blur the lines of like, really death-defying stuff," he said.
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For many kids, the appeal of a live circus — even with its death-defying acrobats — steadily dwindled as movies, TV shows, video games and the internet proliferated.
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Related: Death-Defying Photoshoot Dangles Superheroes from a Skyscraper Silicon Valhalla: Stockholm Stakes Its Claim on the Future Creatives Outsource Oil Painting Inspirations to Chinese Artist Village
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Still, I knew from a previous trip that while the Camino del Diablo may feel like a death-defying excursion into forbidding territory, it's actually quite safe.
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When it came time for Cobie Smulders to do her death-defying stunts in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, she knew just who to turn to for advice.
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The cape would be used both to provide thrust, and control in death-defying twists and turns, and to confuse smart missiles, like a modern day aerial bullfighter.
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Known for death-defying feats like the Mastwalk and the Keelwalk, this stunt puts Thomson 280ft in the air — equivalent to the height of a 25-story building.
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Enjoy an exclusive deleted scene from the premiere at the top of the post as well as the above supercut of all 35 of Probst's death-defying intros.
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Spider-Man feeds that joy with the bursts of motion that spring out of your web-swinging and death-defying leaps through the breaks in Manhattan's concrete jungle.
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However, just because Vikander won't ever be put in Lara Croft's level of danger on a movie set doesn't mean that faking those death-defying situations is easy.
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Tom Cruise has toppled competitors at the box office and performed death-defying stunts, but there's one thing that appears to be "mission impossible" for him: talking politics.
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In the eternal battle of the silent auteur comedians — Buster Keaton versus Charlie Chaplin — Keaton cleans up, by any sensible measure, in a tally of death-defying stunts.
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They're capable of gasp-inducing feats—spins for days, death-defying falls—that are woven into an elegant ode to the power and poetry of the male body.
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Jackie Chan has a long and historic career in films, and he's as passionate about panda conservation as he was about his death-defying stunt work during his heyday.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 42%Synopsis: "Death Defying Acts" concocts a fictional romance between famous illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) and impoverished Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
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Whether it's a favorite romantic pairing, a death-defying dragon battle sequence, or long-lost family reunions, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are giving fans what they want.
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Sure, Tom Cruise races around Paris in a death-defying motorcycle/car chase in Mission Impossible: Fallout, but wouldn't you prefer your spy thrillers with a dash of humor?
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Knievel — born Robert Craig Knievel Jr. — was not only known for his death-defying stunts in the '60s and '70s, but for the showmanship he displayed while attempting them.
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Related: Flow Motion Hyperlapse Offers a Death-Defying Look at Dubai So, Dubai Assembled the Biggest Graduate Design Show Ever These Balloon Rooms Will Bring Out Your Inner Child
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What "Toy Story 4" opts for instead are the usual breakneck chases, death-defying leaps, snappy catchphrases, emotional reunions and nostalgic, warm images of America at its most wholesome.
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But his job could be summed up as "Know the enemy" and in a way he had indeed come to know them, in that fellowship of death-defying souls.
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Related: Meet The Filmmaker Behind Unreal Hyperlapse Tours Of Barcelona Flow Motion Hyperlapse Offers a Death-Defying Look at Dubai Take A Timelapse Tour Behind The North Korean Border
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Louis Rudd and Colin O'Brady are in the middle of a unique race across the coldest continent, and their daily tasks range from the mundane to the death defying.
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The stunt star has been performing death-defying stunts all his life and was featured on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno when he was only 15 years old.
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The Ugly Art offers a further corrosion of that sound with the addition of Sean Kelly, a speed-demon drummer who gives these pieces a maniacal, death-defying energy.
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In a brand new TV special, David Blaine Beyond Magic, the magician and illusionist takes to the streets in a cutting-edge hour full of thrill and death-defying stunts.
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From death-defying orangutans and bratty sea lions through to hostile parakeets and frozen pangolins, this year's crop features some of the best wildlife photography we've seen in a while.
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So sit back, relax and enjoy the fact that you don't need to go on a death-defying journey to space to see the beauty of the auroras from above.
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And the film's ending shows that, yes, pushing for change can be back-breaking, death-defying work, but it's sometimes the only way to get the ruling classes to listen.
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Melting ice uncovered a large part of the wreckage of a U.S. Army transport plane — a wing, canned food, clothes hangers — that went down in death-defying fashion in 2150.
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Business _____ Louis Rudd and Colin O'Brady are in the middle of a unique race across the coldest continent, and their daily tasks range from the mundane to the death defying.
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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death Defying ActsBy Tessa FontaineOut May 1In this riveting and powerful memoir of bravery and mother-daughter bonds, Tessa Fontaine literally lives out a metaphor.
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Given its casually death-defying antics and near-superhuman exploits, it's no surprise that in the wide world of extreme sports, artists often find their perfect subjects and sources of inspiration.
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The pair — seventh-generation members of the famous Flying Wallendas family — crossed a cable that was just 3/4-inch thick and between skyscrapers, a death-defying 25 stories above the ground.
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Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly: The Defenders is blessed by a dynamite actress and geek pop royalty: Sigourney Weaver plays Alexandra, death-defying leader of an occult underworld organization known as The Hand.
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WILL SMITH TO CELEBRATE 50TH BIRTHDAY WITH DEATH-DEFYING LIVE BUNGEE JUMP OVER THE GRAND CANYON Other clips posted on social media show the couple next to Gigi Hadid at the gig.
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The leader of the gang that steals the Death Star plans, Jyn has to attack Stormtroopers and rebels alike, save children from explosions, get blown off platforms and make death-defying leaps.
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Founding his own eponymous theater company, Dragone went on to create a live residency show for Canadian pop singer Celine Dion, and launch death-defying aquatic spectaculars in Macau and Las Vegas.
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It's obvious that Charlize Theron will be OK in the end, which is part of what makes her death-defying stunts on and around dystopian minimalist architecture so fun in Aeon Flux.
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David Blaine is known for his death defying stunts — including being buried alive for a week or frozen in ice for three days — but this one hit a little too close for comfort.
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This is thanks in part to the multiple hours of heart-stopping video uploaded daily to the internet, documenting not only death-defying feats but also perpetuating a dangerous game of one-upmanship.
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Woo turned Hong Kong into the epicenter of a fascinating and highly influential movement in action filmmaking, with his countrymen Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark also conducting mad experiments with death-defying stunts.
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It's unclear just what beef (if any) Bieber has with the Top Gun actor, 53, but Cruise is known for his athletic prowess, often completing his own death-defying stunts on his film sets.
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Cruise's insistence on verisimilitude has become a major part of the mythology around the Mission: Impossible films, adding an extra dimension to "death-defying" when it comes to the franchise's biggest action set pieces.
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The Harlem Globetrotters are at it again ... this time nailing a death-defying shot from the stadium roof where the Golden State Warriors play ... over 100 feet in the air, no harness, no net.
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Harris, 42, cannot stop saying, "Wow" as historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. delivers each new tidbits about one of Harris' ancestors and his death-defying journey from England to the New World.
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While some of his recent fare (for instance, "Railroad Tigers" and "The Foreigner") has gone easy on the stunt work, this sci-fi thriller gives him several opportunities to strut his death-defying stuff.
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But the health and mortality data is still important information for policy makers, because it indicates that subsidies for health insurance are not a uniquely death-defying and therefore sacrosanct form of social spending.
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And if the guardian knew that the parents had decided to take a death-defying trip to flee violence in their home country, how could they, in good conscience, recommend sending children back into that?
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The family lives in a nice house with a backyard, and they frequently go on "adventures" that are magnified in Tim's imagination: baths become deep-sea dives, and everyday bike rides are death-defying feats.
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The artist himself also encouraged this kind of response to his work by employing in this final project old fashioned themes such as death defying risk, the lust for adventure, and the pathos of homesickness.
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Our final exam involved one last death-defying feat, followed by the presentation of our "diplomas": the chunks of concrete that had been smashed on our stomachs during our turns on the bed of nails.
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Xander Cage is back following a 15-year hiatus, and Vin Diesel couldn't be more excited to reprise his role as the death-defying spy in the action-packed sequel xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
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The Tren a las Nubes, or Train to the Clouds, makes its way across the High Andes, near Salta, and crosses a number of death-defying bridges along the way that will make your palms sweat.
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On Wednesday, the Cassini spacecraft makes the first of 22 death-defying dives into the 1,500-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its rings, giving us an unprecedented view of the sixth planet from the sun.
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THE skies above Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were closed on August 10th after an airline employee stole an empty 76-seat plane and performed death-defying aerial acrobatics before crashing the turboprop onto a small island.
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Crazy video here of a circus acrobat who plummeted to the ground in the middle of a dangerous, death-defying act ... bringing the circus to an abrupt halt -- but the miracle is somehow the guy survived.
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The circus gave the final performance of "The Greatest Show on Earth" to a sold-out crowd at Nassau Coliseum, showing off its death-defying stunts and exotic animals for the last time after 146 years.
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New York City's love affair with death-defying stunts is well established, dating at least to Harry Houdini's 1912 escape from handcuffs, leg-irons and a sealed, weighted crate that was submerged in the East River.
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The crash came after a last few months of furious study, during which Cassini performed the Grand Finale — a sensational, death-defying dance that saw the spacecraft dive between the planet and its rings 22 times.
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Chicago's anti-violence march is trying to force the city's white and wealthy to pay attention Why Republican women in Congress might become rarer after the 2018 midterms Tom Cruise's most death-defying Mission: Impossible stunt, explained
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The competition revolves around who can collect the most coins during their run and also who can "impress" the most turtles by performing death-defying stunts and other huge combos as you kill enemies and dodge pitfalls.
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Mr. Hoover's trademark maneuver on the show circuit was a death-defying plunge with both engines cut off; he would use the hurtling momentum to pull the plane up into a loop at the last possible moment.
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Boasting incredible stunts, car chases, explosions and a talented cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson, the fifth movie in the franchise pushes the boundaries of death-defying feats at every turn.
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He has embarked on several seemingly death-defying tasks in an effort to test his endurance and promote his television specials: In 1999 in New York, he was buried underground in a plexiglass coffin for a week.
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But the heat waves washing over much of the Continent this year, which many have linked to climate change, have permitted the retrieval of many more artifacts that recount the death-defying story of the 1946 flight.
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Phil Lind is part of an elite team of wild-land firefighters known as "smoke jumpers" – brave men and women who skydive from death-defying heights into remote, flame-engulfed locations that are not easily accessible by road.
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Instead of consigning himself to Walter Mitty-like reveries while pursuing his vocation as a concrete contractor, Norman soon resolved to seek out adventures of his own — to become a nonfictional version of his death-defying cartoon hero.
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America's Got Talent is full of death-defying stunts, but one act on the live show went horribly wrong when an archer missed her mark and hit her stage partner – and fiancé – in the throat with a flaming arrow.
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Tales of flying fish and death-defying escapes from avalanches are a far cry from McCartney's recent revelations about his own wild adventures with the Beatles, which included "seeing God" during a particularly heavy drug experience in '60s London.
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More appealing is a bigger exhibition on a brightly lit upper floor, which celebrates the feats of another local, a showman who amazed crowds by performing death-defying acts of escape, wriggling out of tight corners and slipping off handcuffs.
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Dating all the way back to the 1800s, thrill-seekers around the world have enjoyed an objectively peculiar pastime: the death-defying and undeniably exhilarating sensation of whirling and freefalling through the air, arms raised, mouths open in (mostly) mock terror.
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Now his death-defying ascent in 2017 of the towering El Capitan granite rock formation in California's Yosemite National Park is taking him to the Oscars, where a film about his feat will compete for the movie world's highest honor.
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Three years (1942-1945) of death-defying bombing runs by the Eighth's Flying Fortresses over cities like Berlin, Dresden and Hanover were, for much of the war, the only battles Allied forces waged inside the territorial borders of Nazi Germany.
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If you thought the "Top Gun: Maverick" trailer was full of death-defying stunts, it's got nothing on this timelapse video taken from the cockpit of an F-22 Raptor during a performance at the Fort Lauderdale Air Show in May.
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But really, this is so exciting because it was not only the template for the Kirby series— platformers that are all about copying your enemies abilities to traverse the world, less death-defying jumps—but also, a really great Kirby game.
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But when a mysterious scroll falls into the hands of Amari, a defiant princess, and Zélie, a tenacious diviner warrior, the two young women set out on a thrilling, death-defying journey to restore magic and take back the throne.
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Instagram is cluttered with death-defying selfies, from legs dangling off the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, where a 26-year-old college student from India died in January, to daredevils showing off their yoga poses at the Trolltunga in Norway.
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Is it just because we all imprinted on The Cutting Edge as kids and now can't see two athletes strategically cuddling while performing death-defying acts that require total mutual trust and synchronicity without assuming they must be soul mates?
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To celebrate the release of Mission: Impossible — Fallout, 22,113 people attended a screening of the film on Wednesday held at Norway's Pulpit Rock, a steep cliff rising 211,210 feet in the air, where one of the film's numerous death-defying stunts was filmed.
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In the trailer for the movie, which opens July 13, the star performs a number of death-defying feats, but there's one particularly eye-popping moment: when he hangs by his prosthetic foot from a rope on the side of the building.
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Jazz stuck to its own steadfast devices this year, though that hardly meant sitting still: Improvising musicians are increasingly dissolving the membranes separating storytelling, composition, live performance and visual art; the music's death-defying, ever-diversifying present is a place of vast possibility.
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With 30 paintings, prints, photographs, drawings and sculptures, all from the permanent collection, "Men at Work" explores a range of physical, intellectual and creative labors — from the death-defying process of constructing a dam to the rarefied realm of a musician playing his instrument.
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Click here to view original GIFWe really shouldn't have to say this, but the next time a massive storm churns up towering waves in the ocean, it's probably a good idea to head for cover, instead of suiting up and heading out for some death-defying windsurfing.
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The pop star did the death-defying stunt Sunday night in L.A. for the 2017 American Music Awards -- in which she hung off the side of the JW Marriott Hotel next to the Microsoft Theater while singing her song "Beautiful Trauma" ... just about 34 floors high.
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Wine School If you ever doubt the value that humanity has placed on the fermented juice of the grape, take a look at the labor-intensive, death-defying challenges that people have accepted to tend vines on some of the most perilous hillsides in the world.
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The Corviglia Club is linked to the mountain's ski lodge, while the Cresta Club's small numbers rally around its toboggan run, a death-defying, headfirst solo journey down an ice-covered chute, which opened in 1884 and is allowing women to ride for the first time this year.
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"It started off as, 'This is the most terrifying thing,' but once I settled down and was able to really feel what was happening and be in the moment, it was the most amazing experience," said Visser, noting that his death-defying stunt had required four years of preparation.
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The training, the death-defying weight cuts, the very act of showing up at all when the odds have often made her as much of an underdog outside of the cage as her opponents are inside of it, aren't just the acts of a woman trying to atone for past mistakes.
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In describing the unraveling of this noble civic enterprise, Waleson, the opera critic of The Wall Street Journal for 25 years, gives us a vivid description of each death-defying crisis and a sharp portrait of the ever-changing cast of would-be saviors who somehow always failed in their mission.
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Although Strader did pull over the first time officers from the Denton Police Department tried to stop her, she then basically thought to herself, Eff this, and pulled back into traffic—going in the proper direction this time—and made cops follow her at death-defying speeds of, like, 25 mph.
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In an era of Harry Houdini, Barnum & Bailey and other death-defying showmen, Taylor, who was about 10 years old, became front-page famous when, in a moment of unequivocal courage and questionable decision-making, she crawled into a white-oak barrel of her own design on a late October afternoon in 224.
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Comaneci and others told me that they expected the sport to hit some physical threshold, beyond which humans could not possibly do anything more death-defying, but Biles's ability to conjure a new skill just before the Olympics gave off the sense that there were no limits on what she could do.
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Starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman — best known as the writer of movies like Star Trek Into Darkness and Transformers — the new Mummy looks to be as much an action film as anything else, with Cruise stuck in a death-defying sequence right at the top, and facing various moments of peril and adventure throughout the clip.
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Only when a wrestler delivered a particularly violent suplex or performed a death-defying leap from the top ropes — producing a loud thwack over the multi-million dollar speaker system — did I allow my eyes to glance upward at the screen for a close-up instant replay, each wrestler suddenly becoming the size of a ranch house.
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Now, someone like Jake will tell you about a cultist shrine that needs blowing up, or a flyer stapled to a telephone poll will let you know about a dangerous wild animal you can hunt down, or a plaque commemorating a daredevil's death defying stunt will lead you to mission where you can recreate that act.
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Ramón Carlín, a Mexican washing-machine magnate who was a 21940-year-old sailboat skipper of scant experience when he entered — and unaccountably won — the first Whitbread Round the World Race, a Mother Nature- and death-defying competition of more than seven months and 193,219 nautical miles across storm-tossed and near-frozen seas, died on Thursday in Mexico City.
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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Tardigrades Are So IndestructibleTardigrades, also known as "water bears," are microscopic animals capable of withstanding some of…Read more ReadA recent study from Japan showed that the vast majority of tardigrade genes are "proprietary," meaning these animals evolved their death-defying traits on their own, and were not "stolen" from other animals (an evolutionary process known as horizontal gene transfer).
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This 2496-year-old troupe returns to New York with a triple bill of quirky work by three men: Richard Siegal's "20600 Preludes" features shifting romantic duets to a Gershwin score; Arthur Pita's "Death Defying Dances" is performed to nine songs by the folk singer-songwriter Judy Henske; and in the world premiere of Anton Lachky's "Private Games: Chapter One," wacky faces, speeches and spastic movement congeal into a portrait of collective madness.
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