So the ride was great. Aside from the fact that my feet were soaked through 10 minutes into a three-hour ride. And the fierce howling wind in our faces climbing the Tramway hill. And the driving rain at the top (and the gust there that literally nearly blew both of us off of our bikes). …
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A word of advice this campaign season. If you believe enough in a candidate to put their bumper sticker on your car, be on your best behavior out there on the highways. You’re now an ambassador! Whoah … that guy that cut me off, in the Cadillac with the Bush/Cheney bumper sticker … what an …
Just yesterday I was praising Tim Noakes’ The Lore of Running to a friend who recently started training to run his first marathon. Then this morning over breakfast I stumbled across a fascinating article in the March 20 New Scientist (paper only, not the web) about new research Noakes and colleague Alan St. Clair Gibson …
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Sigh. The comment spammers are back already. It seems as though I’ll have to try something a little more industrial in strength.
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My story on climate change and national security ran in this morning’s paper. It gave me a chance to take a stab at explaining the idea of “no regrets” policies – climate change responses that are robust to the endless and apparently unsettleable argument in our political arena over the nature and causes of climate …