An End to Doping?
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 that can detect doping.
Seattle’s Free Rider Debate
After two charged, if not incoherent, op-eds by Seattle Times editor James Vesely in favor of user fees for bicycles, there was an excellent response last week by David Hiller.
The truth is that less than 3 percent of the region’s total
transportation funds are spent on bicycle and pedestrian projects and
programs, while 37 percent of the [...]
A long time coming.
“For every three bikes we use for deliveries, we save an average of 17
gallons of fuel per day (compared to one truck). That’s about $50 in
savings.”
Needless to say, this is sweet. read more at gas 2.0
Thoughts on Hops
It has come to my attention as of late that the craft-brewing world is going down the tubes. Why you ask? Hops, I say. The apparent hop shortage in the world is not only because of a poor crop. I blame Dog Fish Head Brewing and their over indulgences. Yes there are many more to [...]
Coming to Grips
One of my favorite things about riding a bike is the incredible sense of exceptionalism. When shoppers in Valley Stream, NY carried out the time honored holiday ritual of trampling someone to death to ring in our culture’s annual, consumer gang-bang of the economy I felt comforted that riding bikes at least preserved my sense [...]
