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“Proof” of Time Travel!

18 Monday Apr 2016

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Adidas, author, culture, history, Science, science fiction, science news, Stephanie Beavers, time, time travel, writer

1,500-Year-Old Mummy Appears To Be Wearing Adidas Trainers

Time for conspiracy theorists to have a field day:

Adidas on a mummy

Photo credit: Fresh to death. Khovd Museum


That’s right, folks, a mummy wearing Adidas!

You don’t have to be a writer to come up with a half-baked plot for this one. Was someone sent back in time and can’t get back? Is this a call for help? Was sending them back an accident in the first place…or nefariously planned?! The mystery remains locked…in the past! /sosorryforthegodawfulteaserline

Seriously though, all this is proof of is that these guys were really good craftsmen.

The mummified remains were found 2,803 meters (9,196 feet) up in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. The mummy, thought to be a native Turkic female, is estimated to be over 1,500 years old. Its discovery was prompted after local herdsmen stumbled across the grave and alerted the Khovd Museum.

Score one for history, here’s a nice little time-locked piece of history. They found other artifacts in the tomb as well, offering insight into the people of that time. You can see and read more here.

Well readers, can you come up with some crazy/hilarious/hokey plot-lines for an Adidas-clad time-traveler? Share in the comments!

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Do As I Do

28 Monday Jul 2014

Posted by Stephanie Beavers in Life

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Working customer service at a campground means a lot of repetition. Every single person who checks in is given the same speech outlining the same rules, and we get the same questions asked again and again, day after day.

One of the frustrations with this isn’t just the repetition – it’s that people don’t want to stop and listen for the 30 seconds it takes to convey these pieces of information to them. Now, I’ve worked at this campground for 6 seasons, so you’d think I’d have learned the best way to communicate these rules by now, but the other day I learned a lesson from a coworker of mine who’s only in his second season.

Now, There isn’t a lot of overlap between gatehouse shifts, so we rarely see each other work. But the other day I hung around for a bit after my shift, and I got to watch my coworker check a few campers in. As I watched, he handed the customers a list of the rules and went over every single rule on the back of the sheet.

This coworker is also a friend of mine, and he’s studying to become a teacher. He’s always been a relaxed, engaging guy. I was astounded by what I was seeing, with how these customers were reacting to him. I don’t imagine his tactics would work on every customer, but they were certainly working better than mine.

You see, I would always try to just rattle off the rules as quickly as possible, trying to squish as much information into as tiny a space as possible before I lost the customer’s attention (which sometimes you never get at all). It seemed like every year it got worse, too – fewer and fewer customers would actually listen to what I was saying. It was all I could do to convey our two most important rules before the customer just walked away while I was mid-sentence.

But after watching my coworker, I tried going slower, and I started to get results more similar to his.

If I went slower, so did they.

If I took the time, so would they. I can now get one or two extra things in, and I get the sense that they’re actually listening to me, not just waving a hand with a “yeah, whatever” and not actually absorbing anything.

So next time you’re frustrated with people not paying attention, maybe, instead of speeding up, try slowing down.

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