Get in shape, meet new friends, AND help the environment?

Spogomi is a new “sport” where teams of people compete to pick up as much litter as they can in a specified time period. 

“Some 53 million tonnes of plastic waste and 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded on streets and landscapes globally each year. Japanese runner Kenichi Mamitsuka began scooping up some of them on his morning jogs in 2008, and soon hit on the idea of gamifying his public-spirited act to raise awareness of littering.” From this article

Cash to pay to talk to your doctor after hours?

“My father was on the phone for a long time with the nurse in his primary care doctor’s office working out a challenge with the timing of his various medications. They accidentally got cut off, so he called back… just after 5pm. The phones had been automatically transferred to the answering service and he was told that if he wanted to talk to someone he would have to pay in cash.”

I asked a few questions to make sure I had heard the friend telling me this story correctly (since I couldn’t believe what I had heard…)

Have you experienced this or know someone who has? 

The size of life

I hope you enjoy this amazing work as much as I did. Thank you Neal Agarwal and Julius Csotonyi!!