Cycling World Tour Events are Sportwashing Human Rights Abuses
If you want to start a pro-cycling team with a UCI WorldTour license, you have to adhere to five sets of criteria, one of which is ethics. The UCI rule-book expands…
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Proving the Earth Is Round by Bicycling
Scientist and science vlogger Kurtis Baute wanted to prove the world is round (not flat) by using simple methods accessible to pretty much anyone: two sticks, an orange and a bicycle. He…
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Liu Cixin’s ‘The Wandering Earth’ will be Coming to Film
The Wandering Earth is based on a novella by Cixin Liu of the same title, the author is best known for The Three-Body Problem. The story has all the hallmarks of a big Hollywood…
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Lessons from the Winners of the 2018 Boston Marathon
Weather can really throw a wrench in even the best made plans. The Boston Marathon was run yesterday under terribly rainy and windy conditions and most of the top competitors didn’t…
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2017 Toyota Avalon Hybrid Review
The first generation Toyota Avalon was little more than a rebadged Camry with an elevated price tag and pretensions of luxury awkwardly positioned just on edge of Lexus territory. The…
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2017 Toyota Rav4 Platinum Review
When Toyota’s first generation RAV4 hit the market in the mid-1990s it was one of the first offerings in its segment. Two decades later, the SUV/crossover segment is among the…
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Recommended Listening: Reply All ‘The Prophet’
After Andrea is attacked by a stranger in Mexico City, she just wants to figure out who the guy was. Investigating this question drops her right into the middle of…
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FCC Votes to Kill Net Neutrality
This is the stupidest shit I’ve seen all day. Normally, I would say this is “the stupidest fucking shit I’ve seen all year,” but this is 2017 we’re talking about. The…
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Patagonia Is Suing the Trump Administration
Usually when you go to Patagonia’s website you are presented with some photos of climbers or surfers hanging out in Patagonia gear. But on Monday, around 4pm EST, the website started…
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Cards Against Humanity Saves America
Cards Against Humanity is back for this year’s Holiday Bullshit; Cards Against Humanity Saves the World. Previous years have been pretty fun and entertaining, but this one looks like it…
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‘The Post’ Trailer with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks
The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg, is a historical drama about The Washington Post’s publication of The Pentagon Papers in 1971. The film follows the country’s first female newspaper publisher of The…
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