Musical arrow to the heart courtesy of Rachel Price and Lake Street Dive
I get that I'm the most spectacularly unhip person on earth, so everybody else has probably been turned into this for years, if not decades, but Mother of God, ...
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Random Friday Linkage
Random Friday Linkage: Carly Rae Jepson, Paul Bogard, car chases, Bo Xilai, bad human beings, Louisiana sinkholes, two funny foreign commercials, and most impor...
Stephan Siegrist did Cerro Torre’s West Face in winter, AGAIN!
I'm thrilled to see the news that Stephan Siegrist has done it AGAIN--made ANOTHER ascent of the West Face of Cerro Torre. Congratulations, Stephan! Links &...
BASE jumping tragedy
Regular readers of this site will remember that two months ago I posted a review of Steph Davis’s remarkable book, Learning to Fly. In it, amidst a descri...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: the final disintegration
Harold Bixby's last ditch efforts to save the CNAC partnership, August 1937. His wranglings with CNAC's Chinese leadership and with United States neutrality leg...
Shattered Sword, the best battle narrative I’ve ever read
My review of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, the best battle narrative I've ever read.
Ever wonder what environmental calamity looks like from space?
Ever wonder what environmental calamity looks like from space? This article gives the answer, it's both beautiful and terrifying, and it concerns every one of u...
Interesting Linkage
Links to stories I've enjoyed: science, Iran, and human interest
My review of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard
“Sir, I just can’t get over all these God-damned stars”; My review of Paul Bogard's paean to darkness, The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Ag...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Moon Chin’s wife cheats death
Moon Chin's wife cheats death escaping Shanghai clinging to the outside of a train in August, 1937... Just as she fell, an anonymous arm grabbed her arm and hau...