mud
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Burning Man’s Fyre Fest Moment Is Coming to a Close
About 70,000 Burning Man attendees in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert were stuck in the mud this weekend after torrential rains this past Friday evening. Eventgoers usually drive or bike from location to location throughout the designated desert area. However, the difficult conditions caused by the heavy rain pooled water and created thick mud that was…
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Making Shiny Balls Of Mud Is A Surprisingly Beautiful Art Form
Video: Mix a little dirt and mud, shape it with your hands and out pops a beautiful shiny mud ball that’s actually the Japanese art of Hikaru Dorodango. It takes so much more work than that, of course, but it really looks like a person is just (skilfully) playing with mud. And then you see…
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Every Baseball Is Rubbed With This Special Mud Before It’s Used
Baseball is a pretty quirky game with quirkier players and quirkiest traditions. Chew tobacco! Sunflower seeds! Rally caps! Seventh Inning Stretch! And even a “special mud” that gets rubbed onto every single baseball in the major and minor leagues. Huh?