Weekly Roundup: Get Fast, Get Green
The holidays are over, now we enter the dark, never-ending slog to Spring. Here’s the best stuff I didn’t get to this week. Enjoy! Will changing your pedal stance width…
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Recommended Reading: The Titanic Was On Fire For Days Before The Iceberg Hit
A couple fascinating, fairly quick, reads for you this Monday. First off, the sinking of the Titanic might not just be a story of a ship hitting an iceberg. Instead,…
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The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games
Games like Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion were some of my first forays in computer gaming. The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games celebrates such great games with 460 pages of…
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Watch Alex Honnold Climb 3200 Feet with No Ropes in ‘Free Solo’ Documentary
El Capitan is a 3,200-foot-tall wall of sheer granite in Yosemite National Park. The first expedition to climb El Capitan did so in 47 days, the first solo attempt took…
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Documentary on the Harrowing First Ascent of Janhukot
Nestled in the Indian Garhwal Himalayas sits Janhukot, a very remote and hard to reach peak that rises more than 22,000 feet above sea level. The mountain sits at the…
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LCD Soundsystem – oh baby
LCD Soundsystem’s new music video is basically a Rian Johnson short film. And that’s okay. The single comes off of 2017’s American Dream, the first LCD Soundsystem album since James…
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Anthropocene, a Documentary on How Humans are Changing the Earth
From Edward Burtynsky and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal & Nicholas de Pencier comes a film titled Anthropocene. The Holocene epoch started 11,700 years ago as the glaciers of the last ice age receded.…
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The Story of Marshall “Major” Taylor
Yes, it’s an ad campaign for Hennessy, but regardless it’s a great story and one that’s seldom told. Major Taylor became a professional racer in 1896, at the age of 18,…
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A Short Documentary on Liv Sansov’s Attempt to Climb 82 of Europe’s Highest Peaks in One Year
In 2017, French climber Liv Sansov set out with a very ambitious plan: to climb all 82 peaks over 4,000 meters in the European Alps. For the better part of…
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HBO and Sky Announce a New Documentary Series About Adnan Syed
HBO and Sky have announced a new documentary series called The Case Against Adnan Syed. Adnan Syed was convicted in 2000 for the murder of Hae Min Lee and his case gained global…
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A Short Documentary from 1915 About the Evolution of the Bicycle
This is a cool French documentary from 1915 that shows the evolution of the bicycle from 1818 to the 1890s. It’s cool to see the transformation to what is essentially…
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