Bicycle Commuting, new year, old bike?

Last year, I commuted on a lovely Raleigh Venture.  Yes, it is like riding a living room.  The squishy seat is a beauty to behold.  You are fully upright and fully content.  However, for commuting with passenger and gear, it turns out to not be the ideal idea.  It worked, no doubt.  But it did [...]

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CNN gets the Duh! Award for the day.

In the article titled “Overpopulation could be people, planet problem“, part of their Planet in Peril series, CNN offers this as one of their article highlights:

Overpopulation will tax water supplies worldwide

Really? You just noticed?
Bah, go back to reporting on Madeline McCann and Phil Spector.

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Mercury in Sled Dogs?

This is seriously not good.  The Discovery Channel News is reporting on a study that is due to be published in the journal, Science of the Total Environment.  I’ll be quite interested to read the whole findings when the study is published.   The water there is closely tied to both the snowfall and snowmelt, so [...]

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