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WEBAyrton Senna’s Heel-and-Toe Braking Technique. There’s a driving technique called heel-and-toe where the driver uses all three pedals (brake, clutch, throttle) at once to make deceleration smoother, especially in the turns.. Heel-toe or heel-and-toe double-declutching is used before entry into a turn while a vehicle is under braking, preparing the transmission to be in the optimal range of ...
Poll results show that “America’s best decade” isn’t the 80s...
WEBMay 29, 2024 · Poll results show that “America’s best decade” isn’t the 80s or the 50s…it’s “whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals…”. When pollsters asked Americans when America had the best economy, most moral society or best music, one variable ...
Clear Language on Slavery - kottke.org
WEBSep 24, 2020 · Clear Language on Slavery: For example: “The prominent slave owner never publicly recognized the offspring of he and one of his slave romances but allowed him to serve in the house”. is really. “The rich human trafficker raped his female hostage and then held their son hostage as well at the death camp he owned”.
Let’s Go for a Stroll Outside - kottke.org
WEBApr 1, 2020 · Most of these are of city walks, the kind of walking I miss most acutely. 1 Some of the videos are narrated, but most contain just ambient city noise. You can find lots more walks, including those in more natural settings, by searching YouTube for “4K walks”, “binaural walks”, or similar terms.. See also Virtual …
Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
WEBAug 6, 2018 · 4. Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. The consequences of technological change are always vast, often unpredictable and largely irreversible. 5. Media tend to become mythic. Cars, planes, TV, movies, newspapers — they have achieved mythic status because they are perceived as gifts of nature, not as artifacts produced in a ...
Human wormholes and the Great Span - kottke.org
WEBJan 30, 2012 · He called it “the Great Span,” a sort of bucket brigade or relay race across time, a way for adjacent generations to let ideas and goals move intact from one mind to another across a couple of hundred years or more. Hiss cites a pair of stories involving Alger (who died in 1996) and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who Alger clerked for and also ...
World War II in 7 minutes - kottke.org
WEBOct 7, 2013 · A 7-minute time lapse video of the European front line changes during World War II, from the invasion of Poland to (spoilers!) the surrender of Germany. Surprising to me how much of the war involves no shifting front lines…the map view really emphasizes this in a way that other WWII narratives do not. (via open culture) maps.
How to read Infinite Jest - kottke.org
WEBJul 15, 2009 · How to read Infinite Jest. A few weeks ago, I wrote the foreword for Infinite Summer, a summer-long collective read of Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s big-ass novel and one of my favorite books.That piece was actually my second draft. My first attempt was a list of advice on reading the novel…the submission of which prompted InfSum’s dungeon master, Matthew Baldwin, to write back ...
Diary Comics, June 17 & 19 - kottke.org
WEBJul 26, 2024 · Diary Comics, June 17 & 19. Being excited & happy about getting dental work done is not foolish! I've had bad/weird teeth for much of my life (genetics 🙃) and it had such a negative effect on my outgoingness, confidence, and even how I smiled (mouth closed, always). I don't even talk about it with people because it was so painful to deal ...
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