Mania: Storiesby Joyce Carol Oates Whether emerging in dark Gothic stories or pervading a sunny suburban world, fear haunts the imagination of Joyce Carol Oates – a writer who “never recovered from fear and disgust in familiar surroundings,” as her admirer John Updike once said. Such is the case with the nine narratives in “The
Given how prevalent suicide is as a global cause of death, you might think we should be talking about it more. There’s a reason we don’t do it. When suicides are reported in the media, others follow – in short, it is a contagion. As such, major media outlets have very strict rules about how
by definition, utopia cannot exist. In 1516, educated readers of Thomas More’s Utopia would have appreciated the tension between two possible etymologies of this novel word: the Greek “eu-topos”, meaning good place, and “ou-topos”, meaning no place at all. It might have been a brief warning that one should never attempt to turn utopia into
according to motorcycle newsIsle of Man TT organizers are launching a sustainability review of the sidecar class. This review follows the suspension of the class during this year’s IOM TT race due to safety concerns following a serious sidecar accident. The class was suspended due to a sidecar accident during the third qualifying session, involving
Empire of Ink: The Printer, the Scoundrel and the Fanatic Who Invented the American Newspaperby alex wright One day Tony Soprano was walking down the street wearing his bedroom slippers retrieve his daily newspaper; Was the next Silicon Valley hotshot Description of newspapers (and magazines) As for me “Yeh” things Outside he gets wet… like
Usually, when a motorcycle manufacturer outsources the basic design and manufacturing of the bike to a competitor, they prefer to keep it quiet. However, in the case of Moto Morini, the Italian/Chinese brand is not shy in stating that its Vettore 450 is a reimagined CFMoto Ibex 450. It can’t be bad (…) The post
If you want to explore the world of knives, be careful: it’s a slippery slope. In short, I went from someone who only had one Swiss Army knife to someone who had cabinets full of fixed blades, folders, automatics, and an array of sharpening accessories. And as my collection has grown, so has my mentality
wWhen Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution and British colonialism were in full swing. Charles Dickens published Hard Times five years ago; Queen Victoria nominally ruled over one-fifth of the world’s population. Science writer Rowan Hooper writes, Darwin devised his evolutionary theory to present what he thought his
wAshington Augustus Roebling, or “Wash”, was the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened to the public on May 24, 1883. It was quite an accomplishment, but he didn’t do it alone. On one side was his father, the ascetic and tyrant John Roebling,
EPM Performance in New Jersey came to Ultimate Motorcycling with a fork upgrade on the Honda CRF300L rally project bike via the YSS fork cartridge kit CO208-900TRC-01 from Thailand. The YSS suspension kit requires separation of the fork tube from the axle lug, which proved an issue even for an experienced suspension[…] The post YSS