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Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, arrived in Rio to “announce” the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.  Except it appears rather than taking an airplane, he decided to arrive via a warp pipe. He “arrived” at the Rio Olympics by emerging from a green pipe and decked out in a Mario (of …

When I saw the caption for this, I thought it might be a little cute.  It turned out to be hilarious and really well-timed. Someone set Michael Phelp’s Olympic swimming to the Super Mario Brother’s soundtrack.  This mostly involves the water level, but also parts of other levels. Things I …

A 16-month long report by the Associated Press has released some scary results.  They discovered that the water in Rio has viruses  at rates that would be 1.7 million times the level that would be alarming in the US and Europe. They estimate that athletes only need to ingest *three* tablespoons …