Ultra-endurance athletes can push their bodies to extraordinary extremes, but even they run into a hard biological wall.

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Even the most elite endurance athletes can’t outrun biology. A new study finds that humans hit a metabolic ceiling at about 2.5 times their resting energy burn. When ultra-runners take on races that ...

Miami voters approved lifetime term limits for elected officials, restricting them to two terms as mayor and two terms as commissioner for their entire lifetime.

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The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head.

More than three decades after first challenging classical rationality, Thaler says a new wave of insight is coming from big ...

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