Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
UK Climb Survey: How Steep Is That Hill, Really?
An open survey of British climbs that measures gradients over several distances using public laser height data.
Why it surfacedThe same hill can be 32% steep over 2 metres and 25% over 100, so every figure states its measurement window. The project has already published 257 climbs across 25 counties, explains its inclusion rules, flags uncertain measurements, and invites corrections, names, and photos without an account.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.