Glowing

01 Aug 2019

Europe Has Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Paths, Why Don’t We?

Parts of Europe have glowy bike paths.  In a town in Poland they glow because they have a material in them called ‘phosphor’ that absorbs sunlight during the day and emits that stored light at night.  According to the engineers who installed the lanes in Lidzbark WarmiÅ„ski Poland, “The material

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10 Oct 2011

Decompression Confession: To Burn or Not to Burn?

The sun had already set and the lavender sky lingered behind the dark mountains to the West. I stood on the dock of a half-mile long pier in the middle of the desert that led to nowhere. I walked the length of the pier and stopped at the end to

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