Background Reading (UPDATED) “Be right, but not dead right.” – Randy Cohen’s Views Put To The Test (BeezodogsPlace) If Kant Were a New York Cyclist (BeezodogsPlace) SF bicyclist faces manslaughter trial (BeezodogsPlace) Was the cyclist who killed a pedestrian reckless? (BeezodogsPlace) Failure to yield right of way (WisDOT) Summary A fellow in my bike club who should know better [...]

Background Reading Cyclists Aren’t ‘Special,’ and They Shouldn’t Play by Their Own Rules (Atlantic Cities) Summary Sarah Goodyear makes some interesting points in her piece in the Atlantic Cities. But among the ones that caught my eye was this: The cyclist as outsider, maverick, or outlaw – that has been the image. But now, bicycling [...]

By GINA KOLATA Published: April 7, 2013 Source: NYTimes It was breakfast time and the people participating in a study of red meat and its consequences had hot, sizzling sirloin steaks plopped down in front of them. The researcher himself bought a George Foreman grill for the occasion, and the nurse assisting him did the [...]

by LYDIA ZURAW March 09, 2013 6:15 AM Source: NPR It takes an adventurous palate to be a food journalist, who must sample and judge from a wide world of cuisines. So it’s understandable why some chefs and foodies might be suspicious of a food editor who decides to cut himself off from a broad [...]

By John Blake, CNN updated 1:12 PM EDT, Tue April 16, 2013 Source: CNN (CNN) – By the time Clarence Jones reached him, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in bad shape. He was unshaven, dirty and dejected. King had spent several days alone in solitary confinement with no mattress in a filthy dark jail [...]

By DAN SAVAGE Published: April 11, 2013 Source: NYTimes ‘Does Jesus Really Love Me?’ by Jeff Chu “Yeeeah, Sydney!” the songwriter and comedian Tim Minchin shouts into a microphone. “Are you up for a . . . sing?” The crowd laughs a little nervously when Minchin, an outspoken atheist, begins to sing, “I love Jesus, [...]

DECEMBER 14, 2010 Source: 90042 – HighlandPark All the excitement over a few lines painted on York Boulevard for bicycles last week, and Mark Vallianatos’ article on Eagle Rock Patch yesterday, reminded me of a time over a hundred years ago when bicycles ruled the day, and highways were being built just for them. The Great California Cycleway opened in Pasadena [...]

by NPR STAFF March 23, 2013 4:58 PM Source: NPR Listen to the story… In 1947, Jackie Robinson famously broke the color line in baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending racial segregation in the major leagues. That moment was a landmark for racial integration in baseball, but there’s another moment few may be [...]

By Sebastian Anthony on March 27, 2013 at 10:20 am Source: ExtremeTech Phinergy, an Israeli startup, has demonstrated an aluminium-air battery that is capable of powering an electric vehicle for up to 1,000 miles (1,609km). Unlike other metal-air batteries that we’ve written about in the past, such as IBM’s lithium-air battery, Phinergy’s Al-air battery actually [...]

DECEMBER 14, 2010 Source: 90042 – HighlandPark All the excitement over a few lines painted on York Boulevard for bicycles last week, and Mark Vallianatos’ article on Eagle Rock Patch yesterday, reminded me of a time over a hundred years ago when bicycles ruled the day, and highways were being built just for them. The Great California Cycleway opened in Pasadena [...]

By Edward Frenke Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at 1:46 PM Source: Slate Math can help you in almost any career. There’s no reason to fear it. E.O. Wilson is an eminent Harvard biologist and best-selling author. I salute him for his accomplishments. But he couldn’t be more wrong in his recent piece in theWall Street Journal (adapted [...]

By GINA KOLATA Published: April 7, 2013 Source: NYTimes It was breakfast time and the people participating in a study of red meat and its consequences had hot, sizzling sirloin steaks plopped down in front of them. The researcher himself bought a George Foreman grill for the occasion, and the nurse assisting him did the [...]

Background Reading Separated Cycle Paths – A Summary (OffTheBeatenPath) Summary Another masterful piece from Jan Hein concerning the crop of “bike lanes” being foisted on Americans who lacking any experience with good European design are making all the same mistakes (now discarded) from decades ago. But why? Let’s listen in: When I criticized the new “cycle path” in [...]

Summary Bicycle clubs in the suburbs have begun to have to deal with acknowledged violations of the Rules of the Road much like their urban counterparts. Among the issues that have come up are: Ignoring local municipality rules against riding 2 or more abreast Rolling through stop signs when riding as a peloton on ‘faster’ [...]

Background Reading Seven Conservative Reasons to Love Bicycling (StreetsBlog) Summary Sometimes Liberals can be incredibly stupid. Angie Schmitt is the poster child for this syndrome. She decides to muse about the fact that what is essentially a cost saving solution to government spending is being pushed aside by the very folks who should be on board: [...]

Background Reading How do you feel about Bike Ambassadors / CPD safety outreach efforts? (ChainLink) Summary It would seem that the ChainLinkers are getting an opportunity to vent about the recent “crackdown” on scofflaw cyclists. Let’s listen in: How do you feel about Bike Ambassadors / CPD safety outreach efforts? Posted by John Greenfield on [...]