The Dailies

Word of the Day

Fell (n./v./adj., FELL)

Triple word score! Not quite, but still—"fell" has multiple meanings. In addition to being the past tense of fall, it can also mean timber that was cut down in a season, the hide of an animal, a rocky hill, inhumanly cruel/fierce, or lethal. So yes, you could have a sentence of "The fell fell fell down the fell." It would be unclear but, at that point, your biggest problem is evil trees and not grammar.

Gif of the Day

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Link of the Day

Slow motion lightning

A stormchaser in South Dakota snapped some great slow-motion footage of a lightning storm earlier this month. As usual, HD and full screen is best.

I'm not sure why the lightning video is more mesmerizing than other nature videos but there's something incredibly cool about watching the lightning fan out, find the ground, and then travel the path repeatedly. And the speed of the wiper blade gives you an idea how slowed-down this video is (2,000 fps). Very cool.

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Happy Friday

Buddy Ryan's "Polish Goalline" tactic

For Jack, our fearless intern who is returning to school to play football, one of the weirdest tactics in the history of football: Buddy Ryan's "Polish Goalline."

"We will then go back to our regular goalline defense and stop them to win the game." Oh the confidence.