🌃 Stay warm out there, folks. We'll see you tomorrow night.
Good evening, beautiful insomniacs. Welcome back to Nova After Dark, where we discuss the news that keeps you up at night—sometimes literally, sometimes existentially, and sometimes because you just realized you left the oven on. So tonight, we’re talking about the 2021 Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China, where hypothermia killed 21 runners during a 100-kilometer race. A hundred kilometers. For those of you in America, that’s 62 miles, which is basically running from your couch to the fridge and back seventeen times while someone keeps moving the fridge. And these people did it in a snowstorm. In May. In China. In a place called Gansu, which I can only assume is Chinese for “what were you thinking?” ...