Michael Shemmer’s Solutions to solve doping, published in scientific american: Immunity to all athletes for past cheating. Increase the number of competitors tested Increase substantially the penalty for getting caught. Disqualify all team members from an event if any member of the team tests positive for doping. Establish a reward for scientists to develop tests [...]
Knob Magazine
The Journal of Dirt
Moment
There are five grey hairs on the right side of my chin. I can see them, before bed, when I floss my teeth. A shave tomorrow and they will be gone. I can already feel the...
Specialized Launches Globe Sub-Brand
It was only a matter of time before Specialized brought the Globe brand back to its roots. Over a decade ago the company launched a line of...
Snowflakes
Do you remember as a child making snowflakes from blue or white construction paper? Our teacher would show us how to fold and cut the paper, and then as she strung these...
Tech
Specialized Launches Globe Sub-Brand
It was only a matter of time before Specialized brought the Globe brand back to its roots. Over a decade ago the company launched a line of european style commuter bikes with minimal Specialized branding and maximum mid-nineties do-gooderness. The idea flopped. This second attempt at launching Globe as a sub-brand certainly has higher chances [...]
Racing
Preventing Doping Through Technology
Cycling news reports that team mechanics are in a general freak-out regarding the possible enforcement of a new UCI technical restriction on the shape of aerodynamic tubes. UCI technical ruling 1.3.024 requires that for every 3 inches deep an areo tube stretches it must have at least an inch of frontal area. The concern was [...]
Advocacy
Acts of Futility
I for one like symbolic but futile acts. Take the Sell Fuel Efficient Cars Act of 2008 recently introduced on the floor of the senate. It proposes a $10,000 subsidy for low income families who trade in their old cars for a newer, American made model that get at least 25 mpg or 4.9 mpg [...]
Fiction
Moment
There are five grey hairs on the right side of my chin. I can see them, before bed, when I floss my teeth. A shave tomorrow and they will be gone. I can already feel the mornings cool air against my face. I do not recognize myself any more than you do. Am I same [...]
Features
Moment
There are five grey hairs on the right side of my chin. I can see them, before bed, when I floss my teeth. A shave tomorrow and they will be gone. I can already feel the mornings cool air against my face. I do not recognize myself any more than you do. Am I same [...]
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Moment
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Weekly: When a Man Dances
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Giove charged in marijuana conspiracy
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Specialized Launches Globe Sub-Brand
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