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Stop Drilling? or Stop Driving! – Go By Bike Episode 22

May 18, 2010

Environmentalists need to examine if their words and actions go together As the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the gulf continues to wreak environmental havoc, I’m sure the reaction from many environmentalists will be loud calls to stop drilling and curtail offshore oil drilling. This may be something we should do, but I wonder how [...]

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The self-appointed bike policeman will see you now!

May 16, 2010

Here comes big dude on bike, riding right up, with a bug up his fanny.

“You broke every law in the book, you’re the worst cyclist I’ve ever seen!!!” (Exclamation point)

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Helmet laws are not the answer

September 9, 2009

It is campaign season again, and there are a number of candidates running for the Board of Aldermen in our sleepy little town of Carrboro, NC (right next to Chapel Hill, NC). Just a few days ago, Sierra Club held a candidates forum. One question they asked the candidates was how they might improve safety [...]

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The state of things

July 4, 2009

It’s been a while since I posted to the Cycle 9 blog. The hiatus was in part due to a lot of grant writing that I had to do for my day job. There’s this thing called the “stimulus” that congress passed, and they are trying to stimulate scientific research. And so government agencies like [...]

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Work and pleasure

February 4, 2009

Today I got to combine work and pleasure: I rode 38 miles round trip on my electrified Big Dummy (the Firefly) to Duke University. I gave a seminar on Bioinformatics, and then rode home. It was a cold day out (at least for these parts), with my ride home dipping well below freezing. I brought [...]

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