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T HE GREATEST BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU fighter in the world is looking to fight me. “Put your hands up,” Rickson Gracie tells me as he advances. “Like you’re talking like an Italian.” I raise my hands as he lunges toward my head. “Don’t let me touch your face.” Gracie — the 63-year-old legend with shorn hair and tanned skin — is wearing gray shorts and a black T-shirt. He’s muscular and compact. I’m taller, but that’s about it. He can choke me unconscious with little to no effort. His hands shoot…

The Tesla company logo is shown at a Tesla dealership in Littleton, Colo., Feb. 2, 2020. A fatal July 2023 crash in California involving a Tesla has drawn the attention of federal investigators, who sent a team to the site of the site of what appears to have been a head-on crash. Credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File A fatal crash involving a Tesla in California has drawn the attention of federal investigators, who sent a…

Image via Netflix Netflix has never been shy in its desire to become the number one studio in Hollywood – regardless of its content only very rarely seeing the inside of a theater – so it’s not all that much of a surprise the streaming service is determined to take Disney on at its own game and win. Just this weekend, Nimona debuted to rave reviews from critics and bumper viewership figures on the most-watched charts, making the Mouse House look like it missed a trick canceling the project following the Fox…

A recent accident between a Tata Safari and a public bus shows how the SUV has torn apart the bodywork of the bus. The accident happened near the Lamberi area on the Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch highway. According to the reports, the bus was driven rashly and crashed into the Tata Safari that was on the opposite side of the road. The accident happened near a construction area, which was barricaded by the authorities to ensure the safe movement of motorists. However, it narrowed the path. The bus was at a high speed and the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It's tempting to argue with someone who is misinformed by showing them studies and articles that prove they're wrong. But new research shows that there's another less confrontational way to get someone to change their mind. A new study in Scientific Reports, led by Dolores Albarracín, a social…

A powerful solar eruption is likely to have hit NASA’s Parker Solar Probe head-on. This artist’s animation shows the spacecraft as it officially touched the Sun. Launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s biggest mysteries, the spacecraft has close-up observations of our star. This is allowing us to see the Sun as never before, and helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the Sun. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian MonroeA massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected escaping…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power/Amazon Prime The Rings of Power continues to be the talk of the town, whether in the form of fans lambasting the show for getting almost everything wrong in their estimation or others simply being glad that Middle-earth is back in live-action after nearly a decade. But as we close the book on the show’s middling penultimate episode, fans wonder if they should leave well enough alone and give thanks that Amazon didn’t opt for a more modern take on Tolkien’s world.…

DART approaching Dimorphos, shown at 8x normal speed. Gif: NASA/GizmodoNASA’s DART spacecraft has crashed into Dimorphos, with the loss of signal occurring today at exactly 7:14 p.m. ET as expected. Scientists will now pore over the data to see if the kinetic impactor altered the asteroid’s orbital trajectory. NASA’s first demonstration of a possible planetary defense strategy appears to have gone exceptionally well, with the DART spacecraft successfully impacting a non-threatening asteroid following a 10-month journey to…

Jason Momoa, best known for his starring roles in Aquaman and Game of Thrones, has been involved in a head-on collision between his car and a motorcycle in California, as per reports. In videos from the accident site, the popular actor can be seen walking back towards his car in the aftermath of the incident. Reports say that nobody was hurt and there are no charges being filed either. Also read: Arnold Schwarzenegger involved in ‘bad’ car accidentReports say that the accident took place on Sunday when the actor was in…

Jason Momoa was involved in a “head-on crash with a motorcyclist” near Calabasas, Los Angeles, on Sunday (24 July) morning. He was not hurt in the incident, while the motorcyclist sustained “minor, non-life threatening injuries”.According to the California Highway Patrol, the accident took place around 11am when 21-year-old Vitaliy Avagimyan jumped lanes and smashed into Momoa’s vehicle head-on.In the incident that took place on Old Topanga Canyon Road, “ crossed over the double yellow lines into the eastbound lanes,…