Category: Challenge
To boldly go.
Two men are trying to travel from Alaska to Miami by personal watercraft. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Poincaré Conjecture.
Chinese scientists may have won a million dollar prize by proving a previously unsolvable math problem.
Post date: Tuesday, June 6th, 2006.
Project RUSH.
Man has designed a crossbow to launch his homemade rocket 20 miles into the air.
Post date: Monday, June 5th, 2006.
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
Foundation offering a million dollar reward for anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal event. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 18th, 2006.
Terra firma, terra firma.
Two men cross the Bering Strait on foot. UPDATE: Russian authorities have detained them.
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
World wide waste.
North Dakota boy is attempting to print the entire Internet on paper. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
Billion Souls Initiative.
Pastors planning 5 million new churches worldwide in 10 years.
Post date: Friday, March 10th, 2006.
DNA bridge.
Singapore to build a bridge in the double-helix shape of DNA.
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Porous liquid.
Scientists are trying to create liquid with holes in it.
Post date: Wednesday, January 4th, 2006.
Burden of proof.
Italian judge orders priest to prove that Jesus Christ existed. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006.
Kryoryctes cadburyi.
Newly discovered dinosaur-era mammal named after chocolate maker. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006.
Genesis all over again.
Dutch businessman is building a scaled-down version of Noah’s Ark.
Post date: Thursday, December 22nd, 2005.
Chikyu.
Japanese machine to dig to the center of the Earth. (via)
Post date: Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Click wars.
Website that lets you showcase your mouse-clicking skills. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Nuts.
One of the hottest new sports around: peanut balancing. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Break ‘em off some.
New Zealand man wants your liposuctioned fat to power his sailboat around the earth. (via)
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
Good trade.
Canadian man hoping to trade a paperclip for a house.
Post date: Wednesday, November 9th, 2005.
Against the grain.
Woman to try and break record for sailing around the world against the wind.
Post date: Friday, October 21st, 2005.
Nanocar.
Scientists have built a single-molecule car that is ‘slightly wider than a strand of DNA‘. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005.
In search of sasquatch.
Maine scientist offering $1 million reward for a photo that leads to the live capture of Bigfoot. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
SpaceShot.
Texas corporation will have online gaming competitions with trips to space as winning prizes. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
College try.
MIT students recreate Archimedes‘ Death Ray and successfully burn a hole in a ship. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
President of the Internet.
Anyone can run for President of the Internet. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2005.
World wide rewrite.
Magazine writer puts an intentionally error-laden article on Wikipedia and lets the community make corrections. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Doodle-off.
Draw a random object that you’re given and display your skills at drawmesomething.com. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
Ratings booster.
Dutch man to take heroin and LSD live on TV. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005.
Egg man.
Man from Colorado sets record by standing 439 eggs on their end. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 14th, 2005.
Calling all Pete’s.
A man named Pete is looking for 1999 other “Pete’s” to join him in the Guiness Book of World Records. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Human cannonball.
Man enters the United States after being shot out of a cannon from Tijuana. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Painters needed.
Woman painting her car with nail polish wants your help. (via)
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
I was running!
Man plans to make like Forrest Gump and run across the United States.
Post date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005.
10 MPH.
A man rides from Seattle to Boston on a Segway and a filmmaker will be capturing it all. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 16th, 2005.
Beachmonger.
Protestor cartwheeling from Brighton to London.
Post date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005.
Fatality.
South Korean man who played video games for 50 hours straight dies of heart failure.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
Don’t quit your day job.
Shot putter who missed world qualifier due to flight mix-up instead enters javelin qualifier and loses big time.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
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