For the world’s greatest ultrarunner, mental toughness is just as important as physical strength. "It’s not always going to feel great, but that’s going to make us better."
According to his memoirs, Eugène-François Vidocq escaped from more than twenty prisons (sometimes dressed as a nun). Working on the other side of the law, he apprehended some 4000 criminals with a team of plainclothes agents. He founded the first criminal investigation bureau — staffed mainly with convicts — and, when he was later fired, the first private detective agency. He was one the fathers of modern criminology and had a rap sheet longer than his very tall tales. Who was Vidocq? Daisy Sainsbury investigates.
The $80 Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep is a 516-piece recreation of the classic 1977 OneStep SX-70 instant camera. Here’s The Verge’s exclusive peek at how it went from fan creation to final product.
Kowloon City, a town I knew nothing about before and which I was blown away by. An enclave of China with its own rules, inside Hong Kong, where so many things happened before the city disappeared.
“It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” say women in Kukes. They’ve all left for London, chasing dreams of fast cars and easy money sold on social media
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