This is an uncharacteristically short description of my goal and how I got there. I plan to cross the USA in a human powered vehicle before the end of 2012. Why: I could say something pithy about climate change, fossil fuels, and dependence on oil, but I really just like the idea of the challenge. […]
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The Daily Mirror, a reputable information source in the UK, states that checks (more accurately cheques) were invented in 325BC, and that any medium can be used to allow one person to promise to pay another – even a cow. I hate checks. They are such an outdated idea. I like receiving funds, I just
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Would you be able to seal up a mine with 300 people inside it, knowing that they would all die? I sat next to a mining engineer name Mike on the sardine express. A short plane trip from Amsterdam to Hull last week, on a visit to my ailing grandma in Lincoln. It was the
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