Some folks argue that if HGH and EPO become legal for amateurs and pros in cycling (and lots of other sports) then everyone will be even, because the presumption will be that everyone’s juiced. There’s just one flaw: Everyone would have to dope — and some would die. And, in this response to a middle-aged [ more... ]

Sarah Burke’s death has caused a lot of handwringing, both over the freak nature of the accident and over the kind of skiing she championed. And then there’s this: The simple fact that Canadian Burke’s injury occurred in Utah, not north of the border, left her family not only unfathomably grieved, but burdened with massive [ more... ]

Patagonia was onto something ages ago when they encouraged people to “Vote the Environment.” A new poll has found that 92% voters in Western states who identify themselves as conservative consider themselves sportsmen, and they consider protecting and managing wild lands as essential to the economic interests of their states. Among the findings: 85% of [ more... ]

Spiderman had a crazy-accurate ability to avoid danger, but it probably would be even better if he had eight eyes. Real-life Adanson spiders have two types of vision that create a super dimensional grasp of the world well beyond the ability of any mammal. Some of their eyes are designed to capture in soft focus, [ more... ]

All almost mid-sized mammals are gone from the Everglades. The culprit? Giant Burmese pythons that became popular “pets” among collectors in Florida in the 1990s and, along with other creatures that don’t belong in the Sunshine State, have managed to get loose of their owners. How bad is it? Raccoon populations have fallen 99.3%, possum [ more... ]

A Texan man with a love for building remote control planes and outfitting them with surveillance cameras made a fun discovery – a river of blood running behind an enormous meatpacking plant. I know what you’re thinking, “It will attract sharks!” “I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood red creek [ more... ]

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Next year, for the first time ever, CX Worlds will be run outside Europe, in Kentucky. But the results probably won’t be too different than they were yesterday at the 2012 Worlds, held on a wet and sandy track in coastal Belgium. No doubt that home field advantage played a role, but still: Belgian Niels [ more... ]

A local San Francisco newspaper carried the above photo with a story of a prolific bike thief caught last week. While I appreciate and empathize with the guy who left the sign, I also recognize that there’s little value in seeking retribution for a stolen bike. It’s like standing on the shoulder of the highway [ more... ]

Last Friday Forbes, which is hardly Mother Jones, published a stunning and thorough rebuke to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board for claiming that scientists have doubts about climate change. Forbes castigates the Journal not only for fudging its facts (i.e., claiming that the world isn’t warming when incontrovertible evidence shows that 2011 was the [ more... ]