My friend was driving down a suburban road, me in the passenger seat, when he came up behind a cyclist. There was no bike lane and a car was approaching from the opposite direction, so he slowed such that we remained behind the rider. Credit: vtsr After the other car went by, my friend began to accelerate, intent on passing. “Hang on,” I said. “There’s a sharp bend just ahead, and you don’t want to pass while we’re both going around it.” “Why not?” “Because—well, just watch.” My friend tapped the brake and fell back. As the rider navigated the curve, he swung out into the road and upon reaching the straightaway returned to the shoulder. As my friend passed a few seconds later, the ... Continue reading →
The Bike Nation series is brought to you in partnership with CLIF Bar. When I lived in “bike-friendly” Washington, D.C.—the 68-square-mile District is painted with 48 miles of bike lanes—I rode my bike to work almost every day. My commute was often punctuated with contentious interactions with pedestrians and drivers. Once when I was stopped at a light, a man in a gold Cadillac emptied a bottle of water onto my lap, laughed, and sped away. A woman driving a black Range Rover veered into the bike lane, then rolled down her window to tell me to watch where I was going. Every morning, I rode past a white-painted ghost bike chained to the intersection where a young cyclist had been flattened by a garbage ... Continue reading →
All the news about auto-emissions and Blago's maybe-confession to Rachel Maddow seems to have somehow eclipsed this rather horrific and...The last few GOP primary debates have been sorry excuses for hard-hitting discussion. Here's how to make them better.The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally. By removing "the n-word" from Huckleberry Finn the editors will also strip away a lot of the meaning of the book. Backpedaling, frustration, and, finally, hope in international climate relations The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012. A global...This hilarious Eminem-inspired video pokes fun at Romney's flip-flopping tendencies.It's from the National Geographic Channel's new show, How Hard Can It Be?, and it's incredible.Using the SFPark website ... Continue reading →
The body of evidence has mounted over the past decade: Having children doesn't make people happy. And yet researchers continue to launch new studies, tinker with the variables, shift the demographics, crunch the numbers another time. It's almost as if the previous results are not so much scientifically invalid as they are socially unacceptable. One study of 909 working moms in Texas found that day-to-day, they "enjoy parenting less than watching TV, shopping, or preparing food." Other studies have "linked parenthood to lower marital satisfaction on average" and a "higher prevalence of depression." Studies have shown that parents register "decreases in life satisfaction in the months after childbirth." In 2009, the Journal of Happiness Studies published a paper announcing that the effect of children on ... Continue reading →
All the news about auto-emissions and Blago's maybe-confession to Rachel Maddow seems to have somehow eclipsed this rather horrific and...The last few GOP primary debates have been sorry excuses for hard-hitting discussion. Here's how to make them better.The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally. By removing "the n-word" from Huckleberry Finn the editors will also strip away a lot of the meaning of the book. Backpedaling, frustration, and, finally, hope in international climate relations The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012. A global...This hilarious Eminem-inspired video pokes fun at Romney's flip-flopping tendencies.It's from the National Geographic Channel's new show, How Hard Can It Be?, and it's incredible.Using the SFPark website ... Continue reading →
astromwallhess 13 photos · 114 followers “partial eclipse of the heart.” Continue reading →
