Cleveland’s One Week Whiskey

How would you like a glass of year-old bourbon? As in, the bourbon has been chemically aged for a scant year? And it’s supposed to be as good as premium, well-aged bourbon? Cleveland Whiskey’s Tom Lix is promising just that: a glass of bourbon chemically aged in a week that … Read More

Running Across Mongolia

Ray Zahab, adventurer, ultramarathon runner, and founder of impossible2possible, will be starting his run across the Gobi Desert on June 17. He plans on running sixty to seventy kilometres a day, finishing around July 21. We’d bet against him, except that this is the same guy who ran across the … Read More

Notes of Werner Herzog, CEO Pay, and Bourdain in the Congo

White Pride in My Classroom – Salon Face-to-face with a white supremacist, a professor of English The Sky-High Club – The New Yorker There’s little evidence that high CEO pay leads to better company performance, but compensation packages keep rising. Dribbling Man – Grantland Richard Swanson launched a quixotic quest … Read More

Interview with Trenna Keating

We’ve been pretty busy watching Defiance recently. Taking place in a war-torn and ecologically devastated Earth after a clash between humans and aliens, Defiance is both an epic drama on the SciFi channel and a multi-platform videogame. Every science-fiction series needs a doctor, and Defiance gets its medical-know how (and … Read More

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