“None of this should discourage cycling. Even the most unsustainable bicycles are significantly less unsustainable than cars.”
↩︎ Low-tech Magazine
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R.E.M. didn’t stick around, flogging it out of habit, or an addiction to fame, until they turned into a punchline… The band that showed a generation how it’s done checked out gracefully, leaving us proud of …
Ghana has six functioning “witch camps” with thousands of residents. “We’re safe, happy and comfortable.”
↩︎ Grey Goose Chronicles
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All 17,000 streetlights in New Zealand’s capital are at risk of “drooping” and then falling.
↩︎ The Guardian
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Reproducing Fred again…’s songs for NPR’s Tiny Desk series “meant re-learning the marimba, playing the vibraphone, singing at the piano and looping sounds and beats—all at the same time.”
Alex Ross: The abundance of Max Richter’s minimalism in soundtracks suggests “we will dissolve into mist before the abyss opens.”
↩︎ The New Yorker
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Noah Smith: Europe’s stuck in an era of “harmonious stasis,” which is problematic if it truly wants to become a third superpower.
↩︎ Noahpinion
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