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museumuesum: Albert Renger-Patzsch Fir Trees in Winter,...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:30:11 -0700

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Fir Trees in Winter, 1956

gelatin silver print

Snow was so much better in 1956.

"Shirley left Shaw, who had another eight hours and 40 minutes of decompression to complete. As..."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:30:24 -0700

“Shirley left Shaw, who had another eight hours and 40 minutes of decompression to complete. As Shirley ascended, it occurred to him that Shaw would not be able to resist coming back to try to recover Deon. Shirley would have been content to leave the body where it was, but Shaw was a man who dived to expand the limits of the possible. He had just hit a record depth on a rebreather, and now he had the opportunity to return a dead boy to his parents and, in the process, do something equally stunning: make the deepest body recovery in the history of diving.”

- Find out what happens—even though you should already know what happens because why haven’t you read this Tim Zimmerman classic yet?

futurejournalismproject: No Sleep ‘Til...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:36:30 -0700

futurejournalismproject:

No Sleep ‘Til Fairbanks

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SBNation’s coverage of the Yukon Quest Race is a great, new example of harnessing these techniques. Created with Vox Media, it’s an elegant display of wrapping a 5,500-word longread in a delightful presentation package.

Check it: SBNation, No Sleep ‘Til Fairbanks.

Great piece by Outside contributor Eva Holland. GO READ IT RIGHT NOW OR ELSE.

Real men (and women ... and, just, humans, really) love ... kale?

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:30:11 -0700

Mark Bittman makes the compelling case for meat to no longer be a staple of our diets, but rather: an occasional treat. Not sold? He’ll walk you through a day in the proper way to eat.

What’s is like to be a 16-year-old dogsledding champion?...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:00:24 -0700

What’s is like to be a 16-year-old dogsledding champion? Elizabeth Eilers Sullivan talks to Noah Pereira, the 16-year-old defending champion of the Junior Iditarod, about just that.

"The term funemployment is fundamentally stupid. There’s nothing fun about being unemployed, even..."

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:11:05 -0700

“The term funemployment is fundamentally stupid. There’s nothing fun about being unemployed, even with severance checks. Online job listings are depressing—in case you haven’t looked at a newspaper since 2008, there are not many jobs right now—and that is without the crushing panic you feel if you spend an afternoon looking at cookware you can’t afford online instead of applying for jobs. Running, even in the middle of a deep freeze in New York, was my recess. Everything went out the window—rent, health insurance, bills—and the whole world was greener on the other side, if only for nine miles. Maybe I’ll have my own start-up and make a quick million! I’d think. (No relevant tech experience.) Perhaps I’ll buy a crumbling mansion in Detroit and fix it up! (Not enough money for a down payment.) I’ll write the next great American novel! (Tried that already, turned out poorly.)”

- Bill Bradley on running while unemployed

abstractnerd: Tenaya Lake and the High Sierra by stickshift_e46...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:15:15 -0700

abstractnerd:

Tenaya Lake and the High Sierra by stickshift_e46 on Flickr.

This is a real photo, huh? Wow.

Is running actually good for your knees?

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:30:22 -0700

It might be—and it also might not be. But know this: running is better for everything else than, well, not-running.

Your fat has a brain, says Bill Giffords, and it’s trying...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:40:51 -0700

Your fat has a brain, says Bill Giffords, and it’s trying to kill you.

Wondering how to make the ultimate POV film?

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:48 -0700

We thought you might be.

Mark Laita was bit by a black mamba—and survived—while working...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:30:33 -0700

Mark Laita was bit by a black mamba—and survived—while working on photography for this latest book, Serpentine. He talked to Joe Spring about the process, and we gathered some of the photos—including the one above: a pit viper—over at outside online dot com.

"Julie started getting uneasy, so Greg agreed to paddle out and have a look to west to see if he..."

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:13:49 -0700

“Julie started getting uneasy, so Greg agreed to paddle out and have a look to west to see if he could see if the smoke from the Pagami Creek Fire looked any closer. He walked down to his kayak and paddled out into a little river just to the north of the lake. As soon as he rounded a bend, he saw it: The entire horizon, all the way across, was on fire. The flames were horizontal, blowing straight at them.”

- Frank Bures tells the previously-not-widely-told story of the couple who got caught in one of the biggest wildfires in Minnesota history.

HAPPY WEEKEND! Start it off with this: Katie Heaney went...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0700

HAPPY WEEKEND!

Start it off with this: Katie Heaney went dogsledding. Like, actually dogsledding: “It’s weird to make actual plans for something that sounds more like a dream—to just pick a day and book it. But way up north in Minnesota, up at the Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge, a person really can go dogsledding. It’s even a website: dogsledding dot com.”

"It’s amazing the national parks can go from being America’s Best Idea to sitting on the..."

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:45:00 -0700

“It’s amazing the national parks can go from being America’s Best Idea to sitting on the chopping block.”

- The sequester of the National Parks is happening, and it is not a good thing, and it is almost definitely a bad thing.

afootballreport: Europe’s highest football pitch While the...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:34 -0700

Ottmar Hitzfeld stadium provides players and fans alike with a spectacular view of the surrounding peaks. Photo: Anthony Cullen/IncWord

Photo: Anthony Cullen/IncWord

afootballreport:

Europe’s highest football pitch

While the beautiful game may be found at higher altitudes in Bolivia, there’s something special about this uncovered gem in Gspon, Switzerland.

Set in the heart of the Swiss alps, “Ottmar Hitzfeld stadium is carved into a mountainside 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) above sea level… The field, surrounded by vertiginous peaks near the resort of Zermatt, was built on one of the few patches flat enough to hold it. There wasn’t enough room for a proper pitch, so the team plays on a three-quarter-size field akin to a five-a-side field. The turf is artificial, because grass won’t grow at this altitude. And because the village is too high for traffic, players arrive by cable car.”

Right, so how do we exchange our team bus for a team cable car?

[Full Wired article by Jeremy Hart]

Psh. Santa Fe is 7,000 feet above sea level, and I have played soccer, multiple times, while in Santa Fe.

Should your kid focus on one sport?

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:30:13 -0700

Specialization at an early age often leads to injuries, Scott Ronsenfield writes. If you want your child to be a world-class athlete—or, rather, if your kid wants to be a world-class athlete—this is the formula: multiple sports to start, then choose one by age 15.

Barefoot running—as in “running while not wearing anything...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:45:12 -0700

Barefoot running—as in “running while not wearing anything on one’s feet”—through New York City.

"One of the popular things to talk about, that we touched a little bit, is not just the number of..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:00:33 -0700

“One of the popular things to talk about, that we touched a little bit, is not just the number of climbers the mountain can support, but also the number of guides and what are the qualification for climbers? That’s a hot topic: Should there be some type of qualification for the guide services? Do they need to have more experience? All of the information I’ve seen is that there’s been a lot of talk with the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism, but no real changes. Everest is such an economic development tool for Nepal. It’s such a poor country that the money it brings in? I don’t think they’re willing to do anything that would put that in jeopardy.”

- Alan Arnette previews the spring season on Everest.

Want to stop time? Go skiing with your four-year-old.

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:30:22 -0700

Want to stop time? Go skiing with your four-year-old.

Trying to get away from the snow?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:12:34 -0700

It’s OK to admit it. Gordy Megroz has some suggestions.