What is the Better Survival Strategy: Cooperation or Competition
There is a growing discontent between classes and the battle between greed and altruism — the American Dilemma. This article is about a third option.
Scott Stoll 2016-05-05
Ideas
These are all my good ideas and bad. I recommend you start with my favorite ideas. Or try doing a search. My ideas are sprinkled everywhere like seeds and some grow up to be books.
The Wheels of Chance by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells wasn’t just a visionary when it came to time machines or men walking on the moon, he also wrote the very first book about bicycle touring, which also helped give rise to the female emancipation movement.
Guest Author 2016-03-06
Life is like riding a bicycle ~ Einstein
Einstein’s famous bicycle quote explained. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” See the original source.
Scott Stoll 2016-03-04
Imagine standing on Mars
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to stand on Mars? Now you don’t have to thanks to this month’s featured Argonaut, the Curiosity Rover. Stand on Mars in this virtual reality panoramic image.
Scott Stoll 2016-02-09
What is a hero?
Is it true that the only people who achieve great things are the ones who take risks and reach for the impossible. Is that what it means to be a hero?
Scott Stoll 2016-01-08
Poison used on Cincinnati bicycle trails
I was riding my bicycle thinking I was improving my health. Then I noticed that the weeds along the fence were being poisoned with herbicide.
Scott Stoll 2015-08-17
Collect your own water with a rain barrel
Collect your own rainwater with this simple setup. Not only is it free, but rainwater contains its own natural fertilizers.
Scott Stoll 2015-06-08
Retrofit street design optimized for humans not cars
Does anyone describe the philosophy of our roads in one word? Is it efficiency? Is it cost? It appears to me there is no guiding principal. So why not build stuff optimized for what it means to be human? Not only is this street redesign optimized for health and happiness, but it also 2–4 times as safe and energy efficient. These ideas have been rattling around in my head for years, and I’ve finally decided to give them life in this quick sketch.
Scott Stoll 2015-03-27
Grow Food NOT Grass
What better way to have a backyard adventure than to grow a garden? We recommend you start with a potted plant like basil.
Scott Stoll 2014-09-17
The universe’s most amazing photo
10 years later and this is still the most amazing image I have ever seen, the most faraway reaches of our universe ever photographed. In this tiny pinprick of one of the darkest regions of the sky, are 10,000 galaxies.
Scott Stoll 2014-06-03
The Giving Tree Sequel
I’ve always been disturbed that the tree sacrifices itself to a greedy old man—so I rewrote the ending and drew new pictures matching the font and style.
Scott Stoll 2013-12-26
Un-Inspirational Bicycle Quotes
For the record, these are bicycle quotes that may be funny but they aren’t any fun. I don’t know what to do with them, except put them on this page all by themselves. Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. ~ George Bernard Shaw Guys would sleep
Scott Stoll 2013-12-18
