Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

If you listen as you read, you can hear the foot-stomping sounds of plastic cups slapping tabletops as children stack them into pyramids — first constructing, then collapsing them, one cup inside the ...

Most sports are actually absurd. Golf involves hitting a tiny ball into a hole hundreds of yards away. Soccer is based on the idea of what if we didn't use our hands. Speed stacking — if you really ...