“Across cultures, early birds get all the credit for hard work—catching worms, etc.—but according to Roenneberg, the real bacon was likely brought home by night owls. Some of our natural prey is nocturnal, and some of it’s just easier to catch after dark. One reason warm-bloodedness was such a triumph of mammalian evolution is that the ability to regulate our body temperature meant we could function at night, when the air gets cooler—and our cold-blooded predators, competitors, and prey get sluggish. Night-owlishness was a further adaptation, a chance mutation that proved useful for feeding the tribe. I sometimes think about this when I find myself staring into the fridge at 2 a.m.” — Kathryn Schulz
“All of us contain a vast reservoir of untapped creativity. The desire to make something beautiful, to express our luminous sensations, is not a rare drive confined to those with artistic training. That same desire is present in cellular biologists and stockbrokers, janitors and housewives. We don’t notice this need because we constantly suppress it, because the timid circuits of the prefrontal cortex keep us from risking self-expression.” — Jonah Lehrer, Imagine (via howtowork)
“Sleeping is the height of genius.” — Soren Kierkegaard (via howtowork)
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I bought a new bike about 2 months ago. And it’s changed my life in so many positive ways. I’ll just let David Byrne describe the feeling of biking, since he says it best:
There’s an exhilaration you get from self-propelled transportation — skateboarding, in-line skating and walking as well as biking; New York has good public transportation, but you just don’t get the kind of rush I’m talking about on a bus or subway train. I got hooked on biking because it’s a pleasure, not because biking lowers my carbon footprint, improves my health or brings me into contact with different parts of the city and new adventures. But it does all these things, too — and sometimes makes us a little self-satisfied for it; still, the reward is emotional gratification, which trumps reason, as it often does.
My bike is a cyclocross bike so it’s good for road riding and light off road riding. I’ve fallen in love with setting out in the morning knowing I’m going to ride 60 miles or so, not having any idea where my bike will take me. I call my bike “The Freedom Machine.” I don’t own a car, so getting out of NYC can get quite expensive. But that’s no longer. If I want to go to the beach, I jump on my bike and head to Fort Tilden. It’s a 45 mile round trip ride and takes about an hour and twenty minutes each way. If I want to head up to the mountains, I ride up the west side of Manhattan, head over the George Washington Bridge, up the Hudson River Road, and then I’m in Norman Rockwell country. This photo is from my last trip up north looking down on the Hudson from Storm King park.
My bike has completely changed my experience in NYC. The more I explore in and around this city, the more I fall deeper in love with the greatest country in the world, NYC. You’ve got the best of both worlds, the city and the country. But, unless you have a bike, the country is just so far away and so expensive to get to.
If you don’t have a bike, get one. And enjoy.
Bike shopping season is nigh
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This is your summer look. You’re welcome.
Sizes go up to 5X, so there’s really no excuse not to live your best life.
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