Visibility (But At What Cost?)

January 7, 2011

Ben Gibbard: I'm A Runner

Here's the link to the full Ben Gibbard interview
(From Runner's World)

Running at night used to terrify me for an admittedly ridiculous reason.  The first chapter of the Dean Koontz book "Midnight" is about a runner being hunted and torn apart by demons, "all because she liked running at night".  
You can read the prologue by "Looking Inside" the book on Amazon


So I geared up. 
To protect me from the imaginary demons in a book I kind of read in high school.  
Yes, I realize that sounds bad.

I'm sure I'm easier to see.  
But I'm not sure I want to be seen.

Linkage:

True Life - On The Mat
An MTV Documentary about the Lake Stevens Hight School Wrestling Team
Produced by Chris Pratt

(Andy Dwyer from Parks and Rec)

Profile of Neil Degrasse Tyson

For most of the people huddling on the ground, tonight is the first time they’ve spent such an extended period looking up at the sky. For three hours, Tyson keeps his audience staring so hard at the heavens he cramps their necks. He speaks of galaxies and the delusions of astrology, how to calculate latitude, the fate of the universe. It is not a lecture. He delivers something more akin to a solo concert. Although he is a card-carrying astrophysicist with a long list of scientific papers in publications like Astrophysical Journal, Tyson has turned himself into a rock-star scientist. He plays to sold-out houses. He appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on the New York Times bestseller list, on Twitter (@neiltyson, with 242,400 followers as I write this). He is now shooting a remake of Carl Sagan’s classic Cosmos series, which will air on Fox in 2013.

Tyson spreads himself so wide for two reasons. One is that there’s so much in the sky to talk about. The other reason is down here on earth. For all the spectacular advances American science has made over the past century--not just in astrophysics but in biology, engineering, and other disciplines--the best days of American science may be behind us. And as American science declines, so does America. So here, in the dark, under the stars, Tyson is going to try to save the future, one neck cramp at a time.