Month: November 2022
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Braydon Bringhurst Versus the Beast: Climbing The Whole Enchilada
Is This Mountain Biking’s Greatest Uphill Achievement? Braydon Bringhurst is the rare athlete who can blend explosive power with precision and control. But he’d need a lot more than that to ride his bike up this insanely technical downhill trail. via Bicycling: https://www.bicycling.com/rides/a41821655/braydon-bringhurst-climbs-whole-enchilada-trail/ He had also crafted a signature style of riding he called “upduro.”…
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A Murder Roils the Cycling World | The New Yorker
A Murder Roils the Cycling World In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/14/a-murder-roils-the-cycling-world Then a rider waiting for the next race walked up, confirmed that I was a reporter, and angrily told me to leave. When I asked him who he was, he said,…
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A Dangerous Game Over Taiwan | The New Yorker
A Dangerous Game Over Taiwan For decades, China has coveted its island neighbor. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/a-dangerous-game-over-taiwan Wu, the foreign minister, told me that Tsai was trying to strike a balance between deterring the People’s Republic and exhausting the Taiwanese people by warning them too often. To…
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‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40 – The New York Times
‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40 With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books/love-and-rockets-hernandez-bros.html In 1981, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez were living in Oxnard, Calif., working as janitors…
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Annie Ernaux Turns Memory Into Art | The New Yorker
Annie Ernaux Turns Memory Into Art Many authors write about their lives. Over nearly fifty years, the Nobel laureate has discovered new ways to do it. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/annie-ernaux-turns-memory-into-art The purpose of Ernaux’s writing, she believes, is not merely to record things that have happened but to “make things exist.” This is strong, but it is…
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Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine | The New Yorker
Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-vladimir-putin-would-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine Even some of my smart colleagues had Russian propaganda playing on…