The big stories this Olympics? Badminton players tried to throw a game, and NBC is awful. But we imagine a future forewarned by this illustration, a future Olympics with dinosaurs, and giant mecha-bots. Then we’ll have some great stuff to talk about.
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- Video: Four-Ton Japanese Mega Bot Fires BBs At Smiling Humans
- Twitter (the Company) Has Been Behaving Very Strangely This Olympics
- Aussie Tycoon Wants to Clone Dinosaurs for His Real Life, Resort-Based Jurassic Park
And don’t forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:
OLYMPICS 2012
- How The Largest Health Surveillance System Ever Created Is Preventing An Olympic-Size Pandemic
- November 1926: Why Men Will Always Be Better at Sports Than Women
- Summer Olympics: 2020
- FYI: Will Athletes Ever Stop Breaking Records?