Of course, basic physics dictates that climbing on a heavier bike will, all else being equal, result in you getting to the top slightly slower. But this bike doesn’t feel perceptibly slower or less keen to accelerate when the road points uphill. The Propel climbs well for an aero road ...
Ma owns ___47___ (near) 9% of e-commerce giant Alibaba. “I want to return to what I love to do — education,” Mr. Ma said recently in ___48___ interview. “There are a lot of things for me ___49___ (learn) from Bill Gates.” He is not only a fan of martial arts...
The platform, and the bridge-like structure leading to it, were made almost entirely of wood and glue (according to wikipedia, there was very sparing use of metal for reinforcement at critical points), so as not to distort the electromagnetic fields near the aircraft under test. Even the bol...
Workers in hard hats and bright-yellow vests biked around the bustling yard, which occupies 2.2 square miles and employs some 30,000 people. In the lobby of the Hyundai hotel, Min talked me through ways to curb carbon emissions from LNG ships. One option, he said,...
“You couldn’t give me enough needles to poke my eyes out,” Erickson says when presented with the idea of undergoing an IPO. “It’s a lifestyle we couldn’t live with.” He means: being accountable to Wall Street and to whims of the market, rather than spending his time managing ...
America is nowhere near what its intellectual output could be in CompSci due to a “brain drain” of talent going into financial sector. You see, the majority of smartest minds in CompSci going to schools like MIT realize the IT sector is considered a liability by management where they ...
A road cycling enthusiast pointed out to me that putting my phone in the small carry bag on the bike frame wouldn’t do a lot of good if there was crash. Most folks go over the handlebars and break a collarbone. The bike rolls far out of reach. The same works for putting t...
In the USA it’s called a Flea Market and Yard Sales. This wasn’t just selling off their trash because they had nothing better to do over the weekend. The country was in chaos and the economy had imploded and their pensions were rendered near worthless. People were starving. ...