Geek Out

The Unhappiest Track Team In The World

Running track in high school was miserable enough on a flat surface – never mind this HILL during practice every day. Aside from being gruelling, the design is pretty clever – it covers the Spanish team’s changing rooms and provides extra seating. [Architizer]


November 10, 2010
Science

New Zealand Earthquake Turns Train Tracks To Spaghetti

This ain’t a photochop, we promise. This past September, a quake rocked Canterbury, New Zealand. But rather than scenes of destruction and rubble, the tremors left behind some bizarre scenes – like these warped tracks atop pristine countryside.


July 28, 2010
Cars

This Train Destroys Its Own Tracks

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Remember the Belgian train that could lay its own tracks? Well the Nazis weren’t as constructive in 1945. I mean they weren’t constructive at all, but this train of theirs was designed to destroy railroads as it ran over them.