Eco-drive: Golf goes green

In these eco-conscious times, there are few areas of life that have not been touched by the drive to go green, and golf is no exception. The trend for environmentally friendly golf is rocketing with celebrities such as Justin Timberlake taking up the cause in unveiling one of the world’s top eco-golf courses earlier this year.

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Beating Badwater, the hardest ultramarathon in the world

Today, you get a call from a friend. They need a favor. Would you mind spending your vacation time this summer in Death Valley, a desert where temperatures hover around 130 degrees Would you be OK with sleeping in a van, if you get to sleep at all, for three days, because you’ll be working your tail off spraying runners down with water, dunking them in ice and keeping track of everything that goes in (and — yes — out) of their body every 15 minutes so they don’t die running 135 miles in the hardest footrace on the planet “Yeah, man, it’s Badwater.

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Robot chalks tweets on Tour de France route

Cycling at the Tour de France has taken a techie turn. Not only is Lance Armstrong posting to Twitter from the race, but a Chalkbot — a robot that writes in water-soluble paint — is scribing messages onto the road, offering inspiration to the competitors and to cancer survivors. The Chalkbot takes input from text messages and Twitter posts sent by the public

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