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Southern Appalachia is a global hotspot for aquatic species. Half of all freshwater fish species on the continent are found here. One of the most spectacular—and most threatened—is the candy darter.
This small fish is often called an “underwater rainbow” with its vibrant blue-green, red, and orange stripes. Candy darters are incredibly rare and currently are only found in 4 streams in all of Virginia and several in West Virginia. Of the 35 known candy darte...
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It’s hard to imagine John Oliver dedicating 20 whole minutes to Mount Everest, but he does it in a rollicking and typically hilarious expose. It’s also quite accurate and all-encomposing, which is a testament to the great journalists who work on this show as writers.
You have to wonder if this marks the beginning of the end of Everest. How many negative stories shitting on the Everest scene need to ...
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Saturday, September 8, 2018
Carries No Weight
Cradled within the
cleavage of a copper
moon ceiling hiding
its color, the hiker
capers through an
unpainted gallery of
birch logs. Over the
crackling of chipmunks
chewing candy apple
brown pine cones.,
the cadence of his
cares carries no weight.
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There are, in the usual theoretical framework, three levels of training hell. First you’ve got functional overreaching, in which you temporarily push your body beyond what it can really handle—think of an intense week-long training camp, for example—but you then pull back in time and get a rebound effect that supercharges your fitness. Then there’s non-functional overreaching, in which you don’t pull back in time and end up with dead legs and a serious case of th...
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The number of people killed by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on April 25 in Nepal has risen past 5,000. Much of the capital of Kathmandu was flattened, and the quake shook structures from Tibet to Bangladesh. Rural villages outside the capital have been cut off by road damage as they wait for aid, and on Everest rescue helicopters had to ferry stranded survivors down from the...
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I never drank coffee in the morning. I would have a few sips, get super shaky and feel my heart beating in my ankles, and reach for green tea instead. Then I met Ben. When we met, Ben drank coffee every morning, and then some in the afternoon, and then talked about drinking it in the evening. It started with my stealing a few sips from his mug when he said it was an exceptionally good brew. Then slowly, after drinking enough sips, I was ordering mugs for myself. Today, I proudly announce...
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In community centers in Minnesota’s metro areas, young Somali girls are breaking an unspoken taboo to talk about a subject that, for them, could quite literally be poisonous: beauty.
Somali men want light-skinned women to be their wives, the girls say. Their community encourages this attitude. The girls recall conversations with mothers and aunts, who speak to Somali girls they deem beautiful, saying, Caadey, "you are so lovely."
“We have this term of endear...
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