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the freediving born to run?
A friend from my Cairo days and avid diver shared a longer piece about freediving by journalist and author James Nestor (thanks Linda!). Nestor argues that We are, truly, born to dive. I’m familiar with the argument but the piece is well written and introduced me … Continue reading
Posted in (trail) running, natural sciences
Tagged born to run, Chris McDougall, freediving, Jack Johnson, James Nestor, the master switch
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eye to eye
Simone van Saarloos writes columns that I always read, not always like, but often do, and off and on she manages a beauty. Her latest is one of those. Won’t reblog it in total this time, just some fragments. The core … Continue reading
Posted in psychology, society
Tagged Arthur Aron, philosophy of the flesh, Simone van Saarloos
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reblogging the largest, most detailed image of space ever
Just too stunning not to share. Originally published on quartz: The vastness of space is so expansive, so inconceivable, that frankly, it makes humanity’s lot in the universe seem pretty tiny and pointless. Amplifying that sense of insignificance, NASA has released its … Continue reading
urban running trends
I pontificate on trail trends, self-define as a trail runner, but for quite a while now have spend nearly all my time in mega urban environments. So with the occasional exception of a holiday or work trip run all of … Continue reading
Posted in (trail) running, running Shanghai
Tagged city marathons, city-trails, color run, freerunning, parkour, race the tube, salomon, Shanghai
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city air
When I look out of my window, this time of year, it’s way too often a grey haze. So Jia Zhangke‘s short video hits home.
Posted in natural sciences, society
Tagged Air pollution, Al Gore, Cairo, Greenpeace, Jia Zhangke, Kathmandu, Nijmegen, Pharrell Williams, Rollin Wang, Shanghai, The Trashmen, WEF, WHO
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why I run?
No, I wouldn’t write about this again if it weren’t for a good reason. The reason being that I entered an essay contest by Geoff Roes to come up with a response to the seemingly unanswerable (he’s got that right) ‘what’s the … Continue reading
Posted in (trail) running, running Shanghai
Tagged Die Antwoord, friction, Geoff Roes, Michael Ondaatje, Shanghai, Teju Cole
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walking more of Shanghai
I’ve written more than enough about making an environment your own by exploring it on foot, and will not add to that. But underlying all the blabbering is my experience that it’s fun to be out in fascinating cityscapes. The juxtapositions, … Continue reading
reblogging slomo
Josh Izenberg is a filmmaker based in San Francisco. “Slomo,” which is his first documentary, has received more than a dozen awards including Best Documentary Short by the International Documentary Association and the jury award for best short documentary at … Continue reading
an interesting use of heat maps for visualizing
An article on quartz about An Atlas Of The Human Body That Maps Where We Feel Emotions pointed me to this scientific article by Finnish researchers on using heat maps to visualize the experience of emotions.
Calvin & Hobbes
I somewhat follow a blog by a ranting US statistician with many stereotypical US obsessions (religion being a major one), don’t ask me why, but his quirky taste for visuals does play into it. A recent post on predictions was headed … Continue reading
more jetting around my expat universe
In a way, the jetting never stopped. From Cambodia, I went to The Netherlands with a short stop-over in Cairo. Apart from a short visit to the UK, that was it for July, then in August relocation to Pudong, Shanghai. … Continue reading
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