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  • Youth 😉

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do you think gets better with age? The older you get the more appreciate that you were once young.

  • Big Timber – A Netflix Documentary Series

    Big Timber – A Netflix Documentary Series

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I have been watching a few documentary series on Netflix. Big Timber is one of them. Usually I like nature that is untouched. I like to see trees that are standing tall and proud, not on their sides, ready to be chopped up into wood for housing.  It…

  • Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

    Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Unilateral Solution I stopped making a mess because I came up with unillateral solutions, until I found the ideal one. I experimented with skewers to remove the mud from shoes, I experimented with rubber boots that I could rinse under a tap. I tried with spare shoes in the letter box. …

  • Swimming Pools Per Capita Map

    Swimming Pools Per Capita Map

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I learned that Switzerland has a map that shows which communes have the most swimming pools per capita. Nyon has 50 swimming pools. That’s 2,3 per thousand people. Blonay St Legier has 336. Collonge- Bellerive has 491, as you’d expect.  Switzerland has, on average, one swimming pool per 155 people. They…

  • Podcasts and Social Media

    Podcasts and Social Media

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you listen to podcasts, and you read articles, and you visit websites you always see Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram, to name the giants. In every podcast episode you hear the guests say “You can find me under this name on this network, and the same name on that network.” The…

  • Cycling from Nyon To Geneva and Back

    Cycling from Nyon To Geneva and Back

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesCatching the train to Geneva and back to Nyon costs about 14CHF per day, depending on whether you have paid 180 CHF for the half fare or not. In contrast two Continent GP 5000 tires cost about 110CHF and you can go to Geneva and back a few hundred times.  The loop…

  • Minimal Walking – Day 2

    Minimal Walking – Day 2

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI went for a walk with the barefoot shoes for a second day in a row. I didn’t regret it. I need to pay more attention to how I walk, specifically I need to make sure not to slam my heel into the ground with each step and this takes focus, muscle…

  • Thoughts On The Vapour Glove Six

    Thoughts On The Vapour Glove Six

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI walk around in socks when I’m at home, so not quite barefoot, but almost. The idea of barefoot shoes is to get the human body, and especially the lower half to get back in touch with walking barefoot.Yesterday I went for an 8.55km walk in barefoot shoes. I didn’t regret it.…

  • Earth Day – Some Simple Acts

    Earth Day – Some Simple Acts

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is Earth Day, as Google, Moleskine and other companies are reminding us of. Earth Day is an opportunity to think about how to reduce our carbon footprint and ecological impact.  Sigg recently began to sell aluminium water bottles that are made entirely from recycled aluminium. Instead of encouraging us to recycle…

  • Call of the Re-Wild

    Call of the Re-Wild

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope wants to bring back top predators like lynx, bears and wolves. In the US national parks brought back certain wild animals and it helped to control the population of elk and other herbivores, and to control the biosphere.  The challenge, with Europe, is that it is tiny, compared to the wide…