On yer bike: Why there’s never been a better time to saddle up – Healthy Living, Health & Wellbeing – The Independent
With just a chain and a couple of cogs linking a rider’s legs to the wheels, hardly any effort goes to waste. The energy efficiency of a bicycle has been estimated to be the equivalent of the average car doing 1,600 miles on a gallon of petrol.
(Via Copenhagenize)
Read the whole article – full of great reasons to ride.
Currently in my reading pile:
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno – David Sheppard
Mysterious Tales of Japan– Rafe Martin
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays – Richard Taruskin
Affluenza – Oliver James
Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens – Johann Peter Eckermann
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World – David Abram
Re-reading:
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems – Gary Snyder
Just arrived:
Break The Mirror – Nanao Sakaki
2666: A Novel – Roberto Bolaño
Partial list of books I read last year:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Quiet Girl – Peter Hoeg
Traffic – Tom Vanderbilt
Bashō’s Journey – The literary prose of Matsuo Bashō
Assassin’s Cloak – An anthology of the world’s greatest diarists
The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross
Temperaments: Artists Facing Their Work – Dan Hofstadter
The Years of Rice and Salt – Kim Stanley Robinson
Things I have learned in my Life so far – Stefan Sagmeister
Tao Te Ching – translated by Stephen Addiss + Stanley Lombardo
Plain Talk about Fine Wine – Justin Meyer
Urban Iran – Various Authors
Hot, Flat and Crowded – Thomas Friedman
Being with Dying – Joan Halifax
