Did you know that May is National Bike Month? I’m always a little skeptical of national fill-in-the-blank months (who comes up with these things, anyway? And who makes them national?), but a bike month is something I can get behind! :) Anyway, the League of American Bicyclists has a whole …
I can’t see that this has too many practical applications right now, but I like the thinking behind it: Basically, the guy who designed this, Ron Arad, used spring tempered steel to make tire-like structures that apparently feel surprisingly like tires to ride on. There are 18 strips of steel …
You can take your home with you if it’s a car–why not if it’s a bike too? Check it out: it’s powered by a roof-mounted wind turbine, and there are solar panels to run the stove and hot water. And it has a kitchen, bed, and everything! I don’t know …
James and I get a pretty good complement of magazines at our house, from National Geographic to the New Yorker, from Harper’s to the New York Review of Books and other random things that happen upon our doorway. It’s a pretty amazing spread of information and thought–the only problem is …
