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This guy doesn’t get off his bike for ANYTHING
Anyone can commute on a bike. Only filmmaker Guillaume Blanchet also sleeps, showers, cooks, eats, shops, and dates without getting off his favorite two-wheeled conveyance.
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Inside New York City’s defunct quarantine hospital
Photographer Ian Ference had to get special dispensation from the New York City parks department to visit North Brother Island, the site of a forced-quarantine hospital that closed down 50 years ago. The island, right off the coast of the Bronx, used to house people suffering from contagious diseases like tuberculosis and smallpox — including […]
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Did NYPD falsify account of cyclist’s death?
In October of 2011, a truck hit and killed artist Mathieu Lefevre while he was biking in Brooklyn. Since then, Lefevre’s family and their lawyers have been trying to find out what exactly happened that night. The NYPD’s investigation includes descriptions of surveillance footage showing Lefevre trying to pass a truck on the right. But […]
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LeBron James bikes to work
The Miami Heat star was avoiding a traffic jam when an alert Twitter user snapped his picture.
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Finding the zone: The Zen of urban cycling
Whether you’re riding in the city or the remote mountain biking trails, cycling requires your complete focus. Do it right, and you feel invincible. Slip up, and you could be on a backboard getting a ride to the ER.
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Sporty little MIT ‘city car’ is cute as an animal-themed butt plug
MIT’s 1,609-pound, all-electric wheeled pod thingy is actually going to be produced and sold, so we thought it could use a marketing campaign. Also, the whole web is kind of having a holiday right now, and we wanted to throw our party hats in the ring.
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Seeing red: Where do the GOP candidates stand on urban issues?
For decades, the Republican strategy on cities has been to ignore them and hope they go away. This year appears to be no different, but the guys currently taking pot shots at each other in the presidential primary never cease to surprise.
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Microsoft’s ‘avoid ghetto’ app is kind of gross
Microsoft has come up with an app for people traveling by foot that will route them around areas with high crime rates. This function is being called the “avoid ghetto” feature (not by Microsoft, of course, because they’re not that dense), and it’s, uh, controversial. As a person who sometimes walks around in cities at […]
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How plug-in cars can face up to winter’s challenges
Plug-in and hybrid vehicles face particular challenges in cold weather. But new technologies in the works could help those cars cope.
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Ride the line: What one activist learned biking the Keystone XL route
"Renewable rider" Tom Weis biked the over 2,000 miles of the U.S. portion of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route, learning along the way that opposition to the project doesn't fall along party lines.
