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Bill McKibben on Just How Scary These Times Are

Bill McKibben on Just How Scary These Times Are

Outside — 'Falter' is a frightening read but also an essential one. And it does offer some hope, pointing to two recent technological advances-solar power and the rise of nonviolent direct action-as the keys to a scenario in which our species actually does make it out of this mess.
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David Goggins Wrote the Game Plan for Peak Performance

David Goggins Wrote the Game Plan for Peak Performance

Outside — David Goggins's new memoir, Can't Hurt Me , is written in part as a self-help manual, but the opening line delivers some uncommonly blunt advice for a genre better known for telling us we just need to learn to love ourselves: "You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."
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How Mindfulness Can Supercharge Your Performance

How Mindfulness Can Supercharge Your Performance

Outside — "Begin bygathering up all your attention and bringing it to whatever sensations you're feeling in the body." I'm lying on the rug in my living room, listening to Pete Kirchmer-a professional life coach and the director of mPEAK, a performance-driven mindfulness program-walk me through a "body-scan meditation" via an app on my phone.
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Radical (But Proven!) Wellness Methods of a Self-Experimenting Guru

Radical (But Proven!) Wellness Methods of a Self-Experimenting Guru

Outside — If there's a new technology or diet out there promising to improve your life, chances are Ben Greenfield has tried it. Over the past few years, the 36-year-old Spokane-based author, blogger, personal trainer, and father of twin boys has grabbed the life-hacking baton from Tim Ferriss, the godfather of self-quantification, and run with it, occasionally sprinting down some questionable trails.
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The World Outside Is Finally Expanding

The World Outside Is Finally Expanding

Outside — Last May, we dedicated an entire issue of Outside to the topic of women in the outdoors. The move was as overdue as it was historic for us. In the years preceding, readers had filled our inboxes with e-mails asking us to address the gender disparity in our coverage.
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The Wildest Tales Outside Has Ever Told

The Wildest Tales Outside Has Ever Told

Outside — "In my father's company, trips have a tendency to spiral into disaster," wrote Wells Tower in his 2008 Outside story, " Meltdown." "The mishaps are sometimes large and sometimes inconsequential, but the specter of calamity always rides in his sidecar."
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Can Wolves and Humans Coexist in Yellowstone?

Can Wolves and Humans Coexist in Yellowstone?

Outside — Before the tense drama unfolds in American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West ($28, Crown), there's a note from author Nate Blakeslee: "Every scene depicting wolves in this book was drawn from contemporaneous observations."
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Celebrating 40 Years of 'Outside'

Celebrating 40 Years of 'Outside'

Outside — If we've learned anything in the past 40 years, it's that stories about people who have suffered in the extreme are the ones that endure in the minds of readers. That truth is reflected in the fact that so many of the Outside stories that went on to become bestselling books, including Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, are survival tales at their core.
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The Edge of the World: A New Book from Outside

The Edge of the World: A New Book from Outside

Outside — One morning early on in my tenure as editor of magazine, I boarded a flight for New York and eased into my aisle seat. As we settled in for takeoff, the man seated next to me reached into his backpack and pulled out a copy of our latest issue. I froze.
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Andy Samberg's Tour de Farce

Andy Samberg's Tour de Farce

Outside — Professional athletics have long been a rich vein for Hollywood laughs, and nearly every sport can point to a classic comedy taking aim at its myriad flaws. Hockey has Slap Shot, the 70s-era look at minor league hockey starring Paul Newman. Car racing got Talladega Nights, a hilariously meta take on the sport's ubiquitous product placement.
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This Land Is Your Land?

This Land Is Your Land?

Outside — If you care about the future of public lands, you are probably aware that politicians had been making noise about downscaling the Antiquities Act, reducing the size of national monuments, and transferring large swaths of federal land to state control long before President Trump was inaugurated last January.
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Iceland's Great White North

Iceland's Great White North

Outside — "It's hard to get to?" When searching for a downside to Deplar Farm, the newest heli-skiing and fishing lodge from the ­Crested Butte, Colorado, luxury brand Eleven, that's the best I can do.
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Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left

Outside — During her four-year tenure as Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, a former oil-industry engineer and CEO of REI, has helped designate 18 new national monuments, increase youth engagement in the national parks, and limit access for energy exploration.
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Wanna Stay Healthy? You Better Be Moving All Day Long.

Wanna Stay Healthy? You Better Be Moving All Day Long.

Outside — A few years ago, James Levine, a doctor of endo­crinology at the Mayo Clinic, sparked a radical change in America's office furniture. His research had inspired a pile of viral stories cataloging the negative effects of sitting at a desk: leg muscles shut down, blood pressure increases, good cholesterol plummets, your children starve.
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Editor's Letter: Encyclopedia of Gear

Editor's Letter: Encyclopedia of Gear

Outside — In the middle of our fifth week of working on our Encyclopedia of Gear, I got embroiled in an e-mail thread that now, with 24 hours of distance, seems a little fanatical.
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Why We Run: It's Healthy. And I Can Stop Any Time.

Why We Run: It's Healthy. And I Can Stop Any Time.

Outside — In a perfect week, I get high Monday through Sunday. A decent week means I'm high at least five of those days. Less than that? You probably don't want to be around me. After 48 hours without my usual dose, such as right now, I radiate what an ex-girlfriend once described as "an aura of black sludge."
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Take a Microadventure. Instantly Improve Your Life.

Take a Microadventure. Instantly Improve Your Life.

Outside — "What's new?" Lately, this polite attempt at small talk has been my kryptonite. It may seem benign and friendly, but to me it sounds vaguely like a challenge. As in: Is your life interesting or not?
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The Epic Failures of Ambition

The Epic Failures of Ambition

Outside — The reliably volatile mashup of American hubris and untrammeled wilderness has kept adventure writers on the bestseller list for decades. As two excellent new nonfiction works by Outside contributors demonstrate, the formula is as bankable as ever.
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Are We Ready for Lance Armstrong's Return?

Are We Ready for Lance Armstrong's Return?

Outside — For as long as I've been at the magazine, Outside has routinely been accused of milking Lance Armstrong's popularity-and, eventually, his ruin-for our own gain. Indeed, the man has been on no fewer than ten Outside covers. And when we chose him to host a how-to video, the response was no less disparaging.
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The Rewards of an Adventurous Appetite

The Rewards of an Adventurous Appetite

Outside — Did cavemen eat bugs? That may seem like an odd question to lead off an issue packed with adventure-travel stories and headlined by our third-annual installment of the Outside Travel Awards, but surprises are one of the things I love about working here.
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Ultrarunner Hal Koerner's Secrets to Happiness

Ultrarunner Hal Koerner's Secrets to Happiness

Outside — What makes Hal Koerner so damn happy? Ask him that-or any question, really-and you'll get an answer that betrays the simple truth. He speaks in meandering run-on sentences that defy the normal rules of grammar yet somehow always cross the finish line, concluding with the same, infectious takeaway: I love to run!
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It's Alive

It's Alive

Texas Monthly — Didn't the redistricting controversy end three years ago? Yes. And wasn't Leatherface killed in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III? Redistricting battles, like great Hollywood slasher villains, have a habit of coming back to life. A recap of the recent theatrics: In 2001 the Legislature was unable to reach consensus when it tried to redraw Texas's congressional districts based on the new national census.
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Pit Stops

Pit Stops

Texas Monthly — Where are the best places to eat barbecue in Texas? Six years ago we published a highly subjective-and hotly debated- list of our fifty favorite joints, and now we've gone back for seconds. Ten intrepid souls drove more than 21,000 miles in search of 2003's worthiest 'cue.
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Lupe Valdez on Being the Daughter of Migrant Workers

Lupe Valdez on Being the Daughter of Migrant Workers

Texas Monthly — WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, up until I was seven or eight years old, my parents were migrant workers. We lived in San Antonio, but we traveled all over, following the crops. My dad built a trailer that we would attach to the back of the car, and all of our property would go in there.
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