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📸 Postcard of the day: the four castles of Lastours

#TDF2025 | #TDFLive
July 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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in classic Tour style, a team reunion at a truck stop 🤣💛💕
July 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Ben solos to victory at Le Tour 🩷 No Irish luck needed 😉

📸: Getty Images

#efprocycling #tdf2025
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The magic of a Healy breakaway 😮‍💨✨

📸: Jered Gruber and Ashley Gruber

#tdf2025
July 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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“A 5-year study of 263K U.K. commuters, published in the British Medical Journal in 2017, found regular cycling cut the risk of death from any cause by 41%, and the incidence of cancer and heart disease by 45% and 46% respectively. Other large-scale studies have found similar.” Via @CarltonReid.com
18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
www.forbes.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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One of the Universe’s prettiest mysteries — Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy around 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens.

Image Credit: NASA/ESA, Processing: Benoit Blanco
December 31, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Jupiter and its moon Io | NASA
November 19, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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A view of Earth from Saturn.

Credit: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
November 18, 2024 at 4:44 AM